Frequency: (3589)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. German: habitational name from any of the several places so named, from Middle High German īsen ‘iron’ + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.
2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental adoption of 1.
GIVEN NAMES: Jewish 6%. Sol (9), Hyman (7), Miriam (6), Meyer (4), Moshe (4), Isadore (3), Akiva (2), Aron (2), Avner (2), Chaim (2), Emanuel (2), Isidor (2).
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