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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of several places so named, from Middle High German vride ‘peace’, ‘security’, ‘protection’ + berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. In some cases the Jewish name may be ornamental, from German Friede ‘peace’ + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.

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