Hirschberg Family History
Hirschberg Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of several places called Hirschberg from Middle High German hirz ‘deer stag’ + berg ‘mountain hill’ for example in Thuringia North Rhine-Westphalia or in western Poland (Jelenia Góra). In some instances the German surname may be topographic from the same elements. Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name composed of German Hirsch ‘deer’ + Berg ‘mountain hill’ (see 1 above). Compare Hershberg and Hirshberg .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022