Frequency: (170)
(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: variant of Ulbrich.
2. Norwegian: habitational name from any of three farmsteads so named in southeastern Norway. The second element in each case is from Old Norse berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’; while the first element is derived respectively from ulfr ‘wolf’, urð ‘scree’, ‘rock-strewn slope’, and from an unknown source.
GIVEN NAMES: Scandinavian 6%. Selmer, Thor.
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