Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beirgin or Ó
Meirgin, an altered form of Ó hAimheirgin ‘descendant of
Aimheirgin’, a personal name of early Irish mythology and
historical tales, perhaps composed of the elements amhra
‘wonderful’ + gin ‘birth’.
Swedish: variant of
Berg, with the addition of -in, a common suffix of
Swedish family names.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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