Berk

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• Dutch, Czech, and Polish : from a reduced form of a Germanic personal name formed with ber ‘bear’ (see Bernhard).
• Dutch and North German (van Berk) : topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German berke ‘birch’.
• German : of Slavic (Sorbian) origin, an occupational name for a collector of taxes.
• Slovenian : unexplained.
• Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Berg.