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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian (also found in Sweden and Denmark) : topographic name from hei ‘heath’, ‘moor’ + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ or habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named.
  • German : dialect variant of Heuberg, a common topographic name composed of Middle High German höu ‘hay’ + berg ‘hill’, or a habitational name from any of several places named Heiberg.
  • Dutch : habitational name from a place so called in Veldhoven in North Brabant.

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