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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of the various places so named in Hessen and Baden-Württemberg.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) and Swedish : ornamental name meaning ‘grain hill’, from German Korn ‘grain’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’, or Swedish korn + berg.

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