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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German (Hochstettler) : topographic name for someone living high on a mountainside, from Middle High German hōhe ‘high’ + stat, stete ‘place’ + the diminutive suffix -l + the agent suffix -er.

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