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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : ornamental compound, probably influenced by German formations, of bark ‘bark’ + man ‘man’.
  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a birch or birch grove, Dutch berk.
  • Probably a respelling of German Barkmann, a northern form of the topographic name Bergmann.

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