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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from North German Overbeck, from Middle Low German over de beke ‘across the creek’.
  • German : distinguishing name for a baker (see Beck) who lived in the upper part of a village (see Ober).

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