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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Danish and North German : habitational name from any of several farmsteads named with Middle Low German brēd ‘wide’ + berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
  • Swedish : ornamental name composed of the same elements as 1 above. q

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