Family name origins & meanings
- German (Heimbürger) : status name for a village headman, Middle High German heimbürge, a compound of heim ‘homestead’, ‘settlement’ + bürge ‘guardian’. This was the title regularly used for the office of village headman in Franconia. Compare Graf, Hoffmann, Meyer, Schultz, and Vogt.
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from any of several places named Heimburg.