Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Bavaria, called Guttenberg, from the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of Old High German guot ‘good’ + berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. The shortening of the vowel in the first syllable is a feature found in various dialects of German.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German gut ‘good’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.