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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Danish : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of garlic, or possibly a nickname for someone who ate or prepared food with copious amounts of garlic, Middle High German knobelouch.
  • German and Danish : habitational name from any of several places so named in Saxony and Brandenburg.

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