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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of Swiss German Bürki, or an altered spelling of Berke (see Berke 2).
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of Hungarian Berki, a habitational name from a village called Berki, in Pest county, or a topographic name from berek ‘marsh with groves’.
  • English : unexplained.

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