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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Württemberg) : from a pet form of Behr.
  • Altered spelling of Norwegian Berle, a habitational name from a farmstead in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, so named with Old Norse barð ‘rim’, ‘edge’.

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