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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German : habitational name for someone from Oblikon, near Zürich.
  • possibly a variant of Obleier ‘almoner’, someone who was in charge of the so-called obleie ‘alms’, contributions for spiritual purposes, from Late Latin oblegium ‘offering’.

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