Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place so named, now part of Wuppertal.
- German : topographic name from Middle High German hol ‘hollow’, ‘cave’ + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.
- Norwegian : habitational name from farmsteads in the Trøndelag region and in Nordmøre, named in Old Norse as Hólaberg, probably from Old Norse hóll ‘round hill’ + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’. This surname is also found in Denmark and Sweden.