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I would agree with Swedish surname. When the Swedes dropped the patriarchal names "son of" they switched to using names that discribed their surroundings, nature or animals. Using modern Swedish this name is curious, as Enkel - is single, easy, or simple and Breg is hill, rock or mountain. This could have been a location they lived by as in -- single mountain or hill. I can not, however, explain Enkel to Enken. Also, Ek is 'oak' and eken is 'the oak'. Still that doesn't explain Enkenberg. It's close.

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Finland has the second largest population of Swedish speaking people - over 300,000 today. It is a second language in Finland.