The hamburg Surname
hamburg Name Meaning and History
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from the great
city and port at the mouth of the river Elbe, named with the Germanic
elements ham ‘water meadow’ + burg ‘fortress’,
‘fortified town’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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