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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch, German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place called Vredenburg in Gelderland, Netherlands.
  • Dutch, German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : from a Germanic personal name, composed of the elements frithu ‘peace’ + burg ‘stronghold’.

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