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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : habitational name from a farm or village named Freberg(a), of which there are at least three examples in Sweden, possibly with the same etymology as 2.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads named Freberg, from Freyja (the Old Norse goddess of love) + berg ‘mountain’.

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