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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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