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berkey Name Meaning and History

  1. Americanized spelling of Swiss German Bürki, or an altered spelling of Berke (see Berke 2).
  2. Possibly an Americanized spelling of Hungarian Berki, a habitational name from a village called Berki, in Pest county, or a topographic name from berek ‘marsh with groves’.
  3. English: unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of berkey Families in the US in 1920
Number of berkey families
 108-213
 37-107		 1-36
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Jacob K. & Mary Ann Berkey Silvia Vilches 15
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Family history arther_berkey 33
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DANIEL Berkey Md Kate Zimmerman Somerset Cty, PA gregory_lantay 3
Updated Web Site rcooper169 0
HOTILLING IN MIN-MUDGETT olliemae149 4
Earl & Janet Kroncke Berkey Kathy 0
Berkey pictures Vikki Czaplewski Henry 2
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