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berg Name Meaning and History

  1. German or Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill or mountain, from Middle High German berc. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe.
  2. Scandinavian: habitational name for someone who lived at a farmstead named with Old Norse bjarg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. In Sweden this is commonly found as an element of ornamental names.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’, or a short form of any of the many ornamental surnames containing this word as the final element, for example Schönberg (see Schoenberg) and Goldberg.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The berg name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the berg family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of berg Families in the US in 1920
Number of berg families
 635-1268
 212-634		 1-211
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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