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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of several places so called in Bavaria, Westphalia, and Schleswig-Holstein.
  • Dutch : variant of Lambert.
  • Swedish : probably of German origin, but perhaps an ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element + berg ‘mountain’.

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