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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a grocer, a seller of herbs and spices, from Middle High German lörber ‘laurel’, ‘bay (tree)’.
  • Slovenian : nickname from lorber, an informal word meaning ‘laurel’, ‘bay’, of German origin (see 1 above).

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