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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of various places named Salzberg, or a topographic name from Middle High German salz ‘salt’ + berc ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Salz ‘salt’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.

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