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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered form of German Hirschberger, a habitational name for someone from any of several places named Hirschberg.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : mainly an ornamental name composed of German Hirsch ‘deer’, ‘hart’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ + the agent suffix -er, but possibly habitational in some cases (see 1).

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