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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so called in Bavaria, from Middle High German ‘lake’ + wald ‘forest’.
  • German : from the German personal name Siegbald, composed of the Germanic elements sigi ‘victory’ + bald ‘bold’, ‘courageous’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German See ‘lake’ + Wald ‘forest’.

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