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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of various places called Ellenberg, for example near Ellwangen and Salzwedel.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Ölenberg, literally ‘olive mountain’.

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