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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German (Königsberg) : habitational name from any of the twenty or more places in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, and elsewhere named Königsberg in German, literally ‘king’s mountain’. The most famous of these is the city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), in former East Prussia, the home of the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Königsberg ‘king’s mountain’.

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