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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from hal ‘marsh’, ‘mire’ + bach ‘stream’.
  • Dutch and German : habitational name from any of three places called Halbach, near Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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