Frankenberg Family History
Frankenberg Name Meaning
German: habitational name from a place in northern Hesse named as ‘fort (Old High German burg) of the Franks’. Situated on the border with the Saxons Frankenberg was founded c. 1230. Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from this place or an artificial name from German Franken + Berg ‘mountain hill mountain’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022