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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scandinavian : either an ornamental name composed of fri ‘free’ + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ or a habitational name from a place so named.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Freiberg.

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