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7/24/2017, 4:05 AM LMS
6/19/2017, 7:31 PM TanorFaux

Name Guttenberg
Type Surname (from location & ornamental)
Usage German, Jewish
Edit Status Statusnot set

Meaning & History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Bavaria, called Guttenberg, from the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of Old High German guot ‘good’ + berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. The shortening of the vowel in the first syllable is a feature found in various dialects of German.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name composed of German gut ‘good’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
Added 6/19/2017 by TanorFaux