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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German schwarz ‘black’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
  • Altered spelling of German Schwarzberg, a habitational name from any of several places so named in Bavaria.

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