Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name from any of various places, notably one southeast of Heidelberg, named from Middle High German eichel ‘acorn’ + berc ‘mountain’, ‘hill’, or topographic name for someone who lived on an oak-covered hill.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental compound of German Eichel ‘acorn’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.