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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from the city of Lviv in Ukraine, from its German name Lemberg.
  • German : habitational name from a place called Lemberg in Silesia (originally Löwenberg, from Middle High German lewe, löwe ‘lion’ + berg ‘mountain’). There are other places so named in various parts of Germany.

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