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The elbe Surname

elbe Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of various places named Elbe or from the river name.
  2. from a short form of a Germanic personal name beginning Alf-, from an element cognate with Middle Low German alf ‘ghost’, Middle High German alp (plural elbe).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The elbe name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the elbe family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of elbe Families in the US in 1920
Number of elbe families
 7-11
 3-6		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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The Elbe of Illinois and US HartmutVerheyen 9
Hermann Elbe HartmutVerheyen 1
Elbe family Wendy 6
Esther Victoria Elbe-Hurrelbrink Mary 0
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Elbe Family history Andrea Niven (nee Elbe) 2
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