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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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