Family name origins & meanings
- Swedish : ornamental name from the place-name element sil ‘stretch of smooth water’ + berg ‘mountain’.
- Danish : habitational name from a place named Silberg.
- German : habitational name from a place so named in Hesse, or possibly a variant of Silberberg.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Silber, the last syllable being replaced with German Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.