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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : habitational name from any of numerous places called Lichtenberg in Germany or one in Dutch Limburg.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental compound name formed with German Licht ‘light’ (genitive Lichten) + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.

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