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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : ornamental name composed of the elements al ‘alder’ + -born, a Swedish surname suffix derived from German geboren ‘born’.
  • North German : from the old personal name Albern, from Germanic adal ‘noble’ + boran ‘born’.

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