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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Partly Americanized form of German Mühlberg, a habitational name from any of several places named with German Mühl ‘mill’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. It is also found as a Swedish name, where it may be of ornamental origin.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Mühl ‘mill’ + Berg ‘hill’ (see 1).

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