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Type Surname (ornamental)
Usage Swedish
Meaning & History
Combination of Swedish svedja "to burn off, to swidden" (referring to slash-and-burn agriculture (in Swedish: svedjebruk)) and berg "mountain". This name can be both locational (surname derived from a place named with Sved-. Svedje-, or Svedja) and ornamental.