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dunkelberger Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name, literally meaning ‘man from the dark mountain’, from German dunkel ‘dark’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.
  2. topographic name for someone living on a dark hillside, from Dunk (see Dunker) + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dunkelberger Families in the US in 1920
Number of dunkelberger families
 64-125
 22-63		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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