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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Oberhellmann) : topographic name for someone who lived at the upper part of a wild and steep tract of land, from ober ‘upper’ + Hell (Middle High German ober ‘upper’ + helle ‘hell’, also ‘steep, wild terrain’) + Mann ‘man’.

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