Holberg Family History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from a place so named now part of Wuppertal. German: topographic name from Middle High German hol ‘hollow cave’ + berg ‘mountain hill’.

Norwegian: habitational name from farmsteads in the Trøndelag region and in Nordmøre named in Old Norse as Hólaberg probably from Old Norse hóll ‘round hill mound’ + berg ‘mountain hill’.

Swedish: variant of Hollberg an ornamental name from placenames beginning with Hål(l)- or Hol- + berg ‘mountain hill’ hence a variant or a cognate of Hållberg (see Hallberg).

In North America this surname is also an altered form of Hållberg.