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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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