On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 1:42:49 PM UTC-7, James LaLone via wrote: > At the genie meeting last night someone asked me if Danish surnames ending > in BORG are an indication of royalty. I have no idea, can anyone inform > me? Her name is SPRINGBORG. thanks. I doubt it. '-borg' is the same as the German -burg - a castle. Someone who owned the castle (noble, gentry) could have had such a surname, but so could anyone who just lived there. The Danes adopted surnames late (late 19th century, early 20th century). Before then many Danes simply went by their given name, their father's name, and the name of the farm or village where they lived, so a Jens Christensen Springborg was simply Jens from Springborg, son of Christian, and if he moved after marriage, his son could have been Nels Jensen Flem. taf