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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : literally ‘cutter’ or ‘chopper’, Middle High German houwer (an agent derivative of houwen ‘to chop’), an occupational name for a woodcutter, a butcher, or a stonemason.

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