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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : White, birch tree

Family name origins & meanings

  • Danish and Norwegian : either a variant of Birke or a habitational name from any of numerous places named with forms of Old Norse bjǫrk or birki ‘birch’.
  • Altered spelling of Swiss German Bürki (see Burkey).

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