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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Bergsträsser, a regional name denoting someone from the Bergstrasse, an area north of Heidelberg, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a mountain road, from Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ + Strasse ‘street’, ‘road’.

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