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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so named in the Palatinate, near Landau.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of some fifteen farmsteads named with ramn ‘raven’ (Old Norse hrafn) + berg ‘mountain’.

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