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frankenberg Name Meaning and History

  1. German: habitational name from a place in northern Hesse named as ‘fort (Old High German burg) of the Franks’. Situated on the border with the Saxons, Frankenberg was founded c. 1230.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from this place or an ornamental name from German Franken + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.

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Distribution of frankenberg Families in the US in 1920
Number of frankenberg families
 18-33
 7-17
 1-6
 0
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