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[Surname] Faffelberger
I´d like to know the meaning of this surname.My grandparents came from Austria.
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One would expect this to be derived from a place named Faffelberg but there's no such locality in Austria or anywhere else. However, the fact that there exists a variant Pfaffelberger makes it plausible that the origin is Pfaffenberg, a common placename in Austria and Germany.
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