Family name origins & meanings
- Swedish (Källenberg) : ornamental name from källa ‘spring’, ‘source’ + berg ‘mountain’.
- German : habitational name from Kallenberg, name of a farmstead near Lennep (near Düsseldorf), which is probably named with kalne, kalle ‘muddy water’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ (see Berg).
- German : habitational name from any of several places so named in Westphalia, Saxony, Bavaria, and Württemberg.