American Family Name Origins:
Habenicht
Frequency: (215)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: nickname for a poor man, a compound of Middle High German habe(n) ‘have’ + niht ‘nothing’.
GIVEN NAMES: German 4%. Fritz, Kurt.
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