Brief Life History of Willy
Willy Arberg was born on 19 April 1917, in Frederiksborg, Denmark. He died on 21 September 2012, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, at the age of 95.
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World Events (3)
1919 · Spain's first subway system opens
Age 2
1921 · Prime Minister Dato assassinated
Age 4
1925 · End of the Commonwealth of Catalonia
Age 8
Name Meaning
German: habitational name from any of several settlements called Amberg (literally ‘by the mountain’), including a city in Bavaria. It could also be a topographic name of identical etymology.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): possibly from 1; alternatively, it may be a habitational name from the city of Hamburg (see Hamburger ). Many varieties of Yiddish lack h and -burg is sometimes replaced by -berg in Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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