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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (Fürstenberg) : habitational name from a place in Swabia, so named from the genitive case of Old High German furisto ‘prince’, modern German Fürst (see Furst) + berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. As a Jewish surname, it is mainly ornamental.

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