Does anyone have any idea what the origin is of these last names?

Question

The last names are Dembo and Walbrecher.I know thay the last name Dembo was shortened from something longer when my ancestors came over to America. I don't know where they came from, does anyone have any insights?

Answer 1

sorry I couldn't find any references for the surname Walbrecher but I did locate info on the surname Dembo.

Dembo is Jewish (from Lithuania): habitational name for someone from any of various places in Lithuania or Poland called Dęby.

Answer 2

Sounds Polish to me. But I'm not looking it up.

Answer 3

walbrecher sounds german.

Answer 4

DEMBOFSKY      DEMBONKE      DEMBOS

DEMBOSKE DEMBOSKI DEMBOSKY

DEMBOSSKI DEMBOSWSKI DEMBOUR

DEMBOUSKI DEMBOVICIUS DEMBOW

DEMBOWITZ DEMBOWSKI DEMBOWSKY

Dembo is listed in the vital records of Keidan, Lithuania.

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeol99x/litva...

Thebest I'm gonna do for Wallbrecher... seems to be German.

http://gw0.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=bea...

Answer 5

did you google  it ?

I google my second name and find a lot about it........i also ask my relatives........

Answer 6

I found this for you in relation to the surname Dembo but couldn't find anything for the other name, sorry.

Dembo Name Meaning and History

Jewish (from Lithuania): habitational name for someone from any of various places in Lithuania or Poland called D{e,}by.

Hope this helps.

Answer 7

This is from ancestry.com: Dembo

Jewish (from Lithuania): habitational name for someone from any of various places in Lithuania or Poland called D{e,}by.

I put Walbrecher through babelfish and got whale breaker.

The earliest Walbrechers came from Prussia,

Answer 8

It would make much more sense to determine one of your ancestors, who was born prior to 1930, and find out where HE came from, instead of just the name.

Census records will show this info, and it is always possible to find when/ where they might have been naturalized, or sometimes their actual immigration record.  People here do that kind of lookup for others, every day of the week, here.

Start with yourself, using a document (birth certificate), and verify the information back.. one generation at a time.  What you need to post is a specific person / date/ approx place (not a living person).  

Heck of a lot more satisfying that guessing or maybe.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

all I could come up with is Dembo, but here it is anyway.

DEMBO: Jewish (from Lithuania): habitational name for someone from any of various places in Lithuania or Poland.

Answer 11

call the reference desk at the library, leave them the question and your phone number,they will call you back!

Answer 12

I couldn't quickly see the nationality for Dembo but there is a genealogy board what might help

http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.demb...

Walbrecher appears to be Dutch

http://www.ongen.de/suchword/datenbankin...

Answer 13

i don't know about Dembo, but Walbrecher sounds German, Dutch, Swiss, Austrian, or Polish to me

Answer 14

The library has a book of names orgin.

Answer 15

Dembo is Israeli and Walbrecher is German or Scottish.