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kolberg Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Kolberg in Pomerania, or from various places formerly named Kohlberg or Colberg and now spelled Kolberg.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kohlenberg or Goldberg.
  3. Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in eastern Norway, so named from kol ‘charcoal’ + berg ‘mountain’.
  4. Swedish: ornamental name from the same elements as in the Norwegian name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The kolberg name in History

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Distribution of kolberg Families in the US in 1920
Number of kolberg families
 12-22
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 16 - Messages: 36
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POW/MIA Korean War, KOLBERG raysestak126 0
Evelyn B and Herman RHamm Lillian (Kolberg) Grace 0
Origins of the Kolbergs Jim Culbert 5
Children of Cleveland's Charles Kolberg irishalberta 1
Kolberg Cousin - IL KATHY KOLBERG FOSTER 3
Kohlberg - Illinois janiebac 0
Children of Clevelands Charles Kolberg irishrjg 0
Kolberg - Long Island, NY Kenneth Kolberg 3
Kolbergs: John Peter, North Dakota Kristin Kolberg 2
Indor Haagen Kolberg - Norway Joan Monfore 4
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