Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name for someone from one of the various places called Kirchberg in Rhineland, Saxony, or Württemberg.
- German : topographic name for someone living at a church on a hill or on a hill so named, from Middle High German kirche ‘church’ + berc ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.
- German : ornamental name from German Kirchberg ‘church mountain’.