Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name from a place in northern Hesse named as ‘fort (Old High German burg) of the Franks’. Situated on the border with the Saxons, Frankenberg was founded c. 1230.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from this place or an ornamental name from German Franken + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.