Family name origins & meanings
- North German : habitational name for someone from Frohburg, Saxony (also recorded as Froberg, in the 16th century).
- North German : possibly from the female personal name Froburg (recorded in the 13th century in Hamburg).
- Danish (Frøberg) : habitational name from a place called Frøbjerg.
- Anglicized form of Swedish Fröberga, habitational name from any of several places in Sweden of this name (either from frö ‘fertile’, ‘rich’, or from the name of the goddess Fröja), or possibly an ornamental name from the same elements.