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The kolberg Surname

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.

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Distribution of kolberg Families in the US in 1920
Number of kolberg families
 12-22
 5-11
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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