Melberg
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Frequency: (192)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Norwegian: habitational name from a farm name in southwestern Norway, originally Meðalberg in Old Norse, from meðal ‘middle’ + berg ‘rock’, ‘hill’, ‘cliff’.
2. Swedish: possibly an ornamental name with the same etymology as 1, or from an unexplained first element (perhaps a place name element) + berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
GIVEN NAMES: Scandinavian 7%; German 4%. Carsten, Nils; Fritz, Guenter.
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