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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Swiss German : from an Alemannic pet form of the personal name Albrecht.
  • German and Swiss German : topographic name for someone who lived at the upper end of or above a settlement, from Middle High German ober ‘upper one’ + the diminutive suffix -ele.

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