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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of Harprecht, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hard ‘hard’ + brecht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.
  • German : habitational name from a place so named on the Elbe river near Wittenberge.

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