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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Danish and German : habitational name from a place so named, most probably the one in Mecklenburg, Germany.
  • Swedish : ornamental name from vin(d) ‘wind’ + berg ‘mountain’, or habitational name from a place named with these elements.

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