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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’.

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The hamburg name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the hamburg family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of hamburg Families in the US in 1920
Number of hamburg families
 27-51
 10-26
 1-9
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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von Borstel families in Hamburg. Albert von Borstel 1
Gieselmann from Hamburg area 1835-1855 Rita Broeker 0
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