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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from Middle Dutch berke ‘birch’ + man ‘man’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Berke 4.
  • Variant of Bergman or Bergmann.

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