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berkowitz Name Meaning and History

Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the Yiddish male personal name Berke, Germanized form of either the Polish spelling Berkowicz or eastern Slavic Berkovich.

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Distribution of berkowitz Families in the US in 1920
Number of berkowitz families
 429-856
 144-428
 1-143
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