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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German Schloss ‘castle’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of various places in Germany so named, because they were the sites of castles (see Schloss 2) on hills (see Berg).

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