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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of various minor places so called, named with Middle High German sand ‘sand’ + berc ‘mountain’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads named with sand ‘sand’ + berg ‘mountain’.
  • Scandinavian and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of sand ‘sand’ + berg ‘mountain’.

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