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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of several places named Freiberg, from Middle High German vrī ‘free’, ‘independent’ + berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ (possibly an altered form of burg ‘castle’, ‘fortified town’).

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