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The berk Surname

berk Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch, Czech, and Polish: from a reduced form of a Germanic personal name formed with ber ‘bear’ (see Bernhard).
  2. Dutch and North German (van Berk): topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German berke ‘birch’.
  3. German: of Slavic (Sorbian) origin, an occupational name for a collector of taxes.
  4. Slovenian: unexplained.
  5. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Berg.

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

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Distribution of berk Families in the US in 1920
Number of berk families
 51-100
 18-50		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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