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The bergen Surname

bergen Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, or a habitational name from any of various places named with this word.
  2. German: inflected variant of Berg (originally after a preposition, as in an or zu Bergen).
  3. Swedish: variant of Berg.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of the various German places called Bergen.

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

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

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Distribution of bergen Families in the US in 1920
Number of bergen families
 189-375
 64-188		 1-63
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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philip bergen/francis philip bergen jmburnett84 0
Burgen / Burgin/Burghen marj2851 0
von bergen janel stodola 7
Bergen Family barbra_ashby 0
John B. Bergen of Shrewsbury, N.J. in 1887 BasketLady420 0
Tunis Bergen of Bergen Island, Long Island, New York SamuelMitchell82 17
NJ & IRELAND redtynan3 1
Margaret H Bergen kaserjenn75 0
Looking for Bergens in Canada jfweser 8
Bergen's in New Jersey k1b1m1e1 5
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