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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metathesized form of Bergman or Bergmann.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived near a river or stream, from eastern Yiddish breg ‘shore’, ‘bank’, ‘coast’ (from Polish brzeg) + -man.

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