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.