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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of various places so named.
  • German : topographic name composed of Middle High German hōhen, an inflected form of hōch ‘high’ + stein ‘rock’.

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