Arbaugh
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Frequency: (635)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Americanized form of German Arbach, a habitational name from any of several places called Arbach, as for example a village in the Rhineland, west of Koblenz, which is named from Middle High German ar(n) ‘eagle’ + bach ‘brook’. Compare Erbaugh.
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