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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place called Weinberg or Weinberge, of which there are numerous examples, especially in Austria and Bavaria.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Wein ‘wine’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.

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