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The berger Surname

berger Name Meaning and History

  1. German, Dutch, Swedish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in the mountains or hills (see Berg). As a Jewish name it is mainly ornamental. It is found as a surname throughout central and eastern Europe, either as a surname of German origin or as a German translation of a topographic name with similar meaning, for example Slovenian Gricar, Hribar, Gorjan or Gorjanc.
  2. Norwegian: habitational name from any of various farms so named with the plural of Berg ‘mountain’.
  3. French: occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French bergier (Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of berger Families in the US in 1920
Number of berger families
 871-1740
 291-870		 1-290
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