Family name origins & meanings
- Norwegian and Swedish : variant of Berg, from the dative form.
- German : variant (from the oblique case) of Berg or a habitational name from any of several places so named, notably in Westphalia.
- French : topographic name for someone who lived on a steep bank, from Old French berge ‘bank’ (apparently of Gaulish origin).
- French : hypercorrected spelling of Barge.