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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from Horlach in Bavaria or Horlachen in Württemberg, both so called from Old High German hor ‘mud’, ‘marsh’ + lahha ‘pool’, ‘pond’; the latter place retains traces of an inflected ending.

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