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Are -bergs, -steins last name suffixes for German Jews?

Einstein, Goldstein, Weinstein, goldberg, friedberg, etc. These are last names of famous Jewish people. Any thoughts?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Not neccesarily only jewish, but quite common among jewish germans.Stein means stone and Berg means mountain.As you can guess, quite a lot of people have names ending in that.