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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. German or Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill or mountain, from Middle High German berc.
  2. Scandinavian: habitational name for someone who lived at a farmstead named with Old Norse bjarg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. In Sweden this is commonly found as an element of ornamental names.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’, or a short form of any of the many ornamental surnames containing this word as the final element, for example Schönberg (see Schoenberg) and Goldberg.

This name appears in the following lists: Mountains and Valleys, Stars and Planets