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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from a reduced form of Berghaus, a compound of Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ + Haus ‘house’. The name is found in the Lower Rhine. Compare Backes.
  • French (Bergès) : Gascon variant of Vergès (see Verges).

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