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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Perle (see Perel) + the Slavic possessive suffix -in.
  • German : from a pet form of Bernhard or a habitational name from a place so named near Schwerin, Mecklenburg.

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