What language of origin is the last name Ehlig?

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What language of origin is the last name Ehlig?
Hi,


For information on the origin, life expectancy, family facts and more for the Ehlig family,


click this link.


http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Ehlig-fami...


good luck,


Hope this has helped.
Reply:looks Gaelic (or Irish or Welsh), but im not sure.
Reply:definitely German





there are 90 Ehlig's in the german phonebook





http://www.telefonbuch.de/?la=en%26amp;bi=128%26amp;...
Reply:It sounds German. It might be a German Jewish name, though.





Jewish names tend to fall along the lines of fairy names that you hear about in books. ex. Rumplestilsken, Humplesdorf, etc.





P.S. Lots of German Jewish names always make me think of fairies with fairy-like characteristics.
Reply:The link given above does not work with the name "Ehlig".


I don't know anybody with this surname. But it seems to be German. When you post the name to Google you get many results for German sites.


Here http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/eh... you see in which regions of Germany there are some people with this name. But this is not complete.

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