Last name: HANOVER
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HANOVER : This last name is indexed 24,350 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HANOVER : 1: Americanized form of German Hannover: habitational name from the city of Hannover in Lower Saxony. The placename first recorded in the form Honovere is a compound of Middle Low German hō hōch ‘high’ + ōver ‘bank shore’.2: Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hannover (see 1 above).
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