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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Danish : habitational name from a place called Kindbjerg.
  • Swedish : ornamental name formed with the place-name element kind- ‘family’, ‘tribe’ + berg ‘mountain’.
  • Possibly Ashkenazic Jewish, an ornamental name from German Kind ‘child’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ : possibly an allusive nickname for someone with many children.

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