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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name for someone who lived among birch trees, from a derivative of Middle Low German berke ‘birch’.
  • Hungarian : from a pet form of the ecclesiastical names Bernát, Hungarian form of Bernhard, or Bertalan, Hungarian form of Bartholomew.
  • English : variant spelling of Birks (see Birch).

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