Family name origins & meanings
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of the six or so farmsteads so named, from Old Norse valr ‘falcon’, varða ‘beacon’, ‘cairn’ or hváll ‘dome-shaped hill’, ‘rise’ + berg ‘mountain’.
- Swedish : ornamental name composed of the elements vall ‘grassy bank’ + berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
- German : habitational name for someone from any of several places named Wallberg.
- German : variant of Wahlberg.