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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a reduced form of the personal name Hilaire (Latin Hilarius).
  • Danish : habitational name from a place so called in northern Germany, near Oldenburg.
  • Danish : from ler ‘clay’, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived on clay or an occupational name for someone who extracted or used it.

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