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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : nickname from Old French homme ‘man’ (Latin homo), representing an Anglo-Norman translation of German Mann.
  • North German (Frisian) : from a short form of Humbert or Humbold (a compound name with the same first element + bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’).

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