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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Kolberg in Pomerania, or from various places formerly named Kohlberg or Colberg and now spelled Kolberg.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Kohlenberg or Goldberg.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in eastern Norway, so named from kol ‘charcoal’ + berg ‘mountain’.
  • Swedish : ornamental name from the same elements as in the Norwegian name.

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