Frequency: (250)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a big mountain, from Middle High German rise ‘giant’ + berc ‘mountain’.
GIVEN NAMES: German 4%. Kurt, Otto.
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