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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Oldenburg, the capital of the former principality of the same name, from the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of Middle Low German ald, old ‘old’ + burg ‘fortress’, ‘fortified town’.

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