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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from one of the various places called Kirchberg in Rhineland, Saxony, or Württemberg.
  • German : topographic name for someone living at a church on a hill or on a hill so named, from Middle High German kirche ‘church’ + berc ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.
  • German : ornamental name from German Kirchberg ‘church mountain’.

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