Guttenberg Family History
Guttenberg Name Meaning
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 through double consonance is a feature found in various dialects of German. Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name composed of German gut ‘good’ + Berg ‘mountain hill’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022