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anhalt Name Meaning and History

German: habitational name from a place called Anholt in Westphalia, which is named from Middle Low German an ‘at’ + holt ‘wood’, or from the old county and castle of Anhalt, named from late Middle High German anhalt ‘stopping point’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of anhalt Families in the US in 1920
Number of anhalt families
 13-23
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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