Last name UNDERBERG: origin and meaning

August 2024 · 1 minute read

Underberg : 1: North German: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill (compare 2 below). The surname Underberg is also found in the Netherlands but in North America it may also be an altered form of the Dutch cognate Onderberg.2: Swedish and Norwegian: habitational name from a place called with Old Norse undir ‘under’ + berg ‘mountain hill’.

Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press

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