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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Partial translation of Swedish Sjöberg, an ornamental name composed of the elements sjö ‘sea’ + berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
  • English : from a Middle English form of an Old English feminine personal name, Sǣburh, composed of the elements ‘sea’ + burh ‘fortified place’.
  • Possibly also English : habitational name from Seaborough in Dorset (from Old English seofon ‘seven’ + beorg ‘hill’, ‘burial mound’) or possibly from Seaborough Hall in Essex.

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