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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place so named, now part of Wuppertal.
  • German : topographic name from Middle High German hol ‘hollow’, ‘cave’ + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from farmsteads in the Trøndelag region and in Nordmøre, named in Old Norse as Hólaberg, probably from Old Norse hóll ‘round hill’ + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’. This surname is also found in Denmark and Sweden.

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