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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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