Frequency: (106)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: Hellenization of the surname A(a) (which is probably derived from a river name), adopted with reference to the first letter of the Greek alphabet. Helene Alpha is documented in Nuremberg in 1167.
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