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The berge Surname

berge Name Meaning and History

  1. Norwegian and Swedish: variant of Berg, from the dative form.
  2. German: variant (from the oblique case) of Berg or a habitational name from any of several places so named, notably in Westphalia.
  3. French: topographic name for someone who lived on a steep bank, from Old French berge ‘bank’ (apparently of Gaulish origin).
  4. French: hypercorrected spelling of Barge.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of berge Families in the US in 1920
Number of berge families
 53-104
 18-52		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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