Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of various places called Hel(l)berg or in Lower Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, and Bavaria.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Hellberg.
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, either from the female personal name Helga or from Old Norse heilagr ‘holy’, ‘sacred’, or hella ‘flagstone’ + berg ‘rock’, ‘mountain’.