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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : patronymic from the personal name Bernt (see Bernhard).
  • Americanized spelling of Bernsen.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Ber (‘bear’).

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