American Family Name Origins:
Hamberger
Frequency: (245)
(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 and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from any of various places named Hamberg.
2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hamburger.
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