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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from an agent derivative of Middle High German āme, ōme ‘standard measure’, hence an occupational name for someone who checked and sealed weights and measures.
  • German : topographic name (mostly Swiss), for someone who lived or owned a farm in a wider, flat part of a valley, a variant of Ebner.
  • German : status or occupational name from Middle High German ebenære ‘arbitrator’, ‘judge’.

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