Backhaus
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Backhaus
Frequency: (540)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: from Middle High German backhūs ‘bakehouse’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived at a communal bake oven.
GIVEN NAMES: German 9%. Dieter (2), Math (2), Otto (2), Reinhold (2), Wilhelm (2), Erwin, Gunter, Hans, Juergen, Kurt, Lorenz, Siegfried.
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