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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from Uhlhorn on the Hunte river. According to Bahlow, the first element of the place name is ul, an old term for ‘rot’, ‘decay’, later reinterpreted as Low German ūle ‘owl’ + horn ‘spit of land’.

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