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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered form of German Oberlack, a topographic name for someone who lived beyond a pond or small lake, from Middle Low German over ‘across’ + Middle High German lache, Middle Low German lake ‘pond’ (dialect la(c)ke).

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