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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for someone who worked with horses, or nickname for a lustful man or one who liked to boast about his sexual conquests, from Middle High German heng(e)st ‘stallion’, also ‘gelding’.

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