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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so named near Heilbronn, or a topographic name for someone who lived by an elder near a stream or by a stream in a hollow, a compound of Holler 2 or 3 + Middle High German bach ‘stream’.

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