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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German Freude ‘joy’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of several places named Freudenberg, from Middle High German vreude ‘joy’ + berc ‘hill’.

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