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The bernier Surname

bernier Name Meaning and History

  1. French: from the personal name Bernier, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements bern ‘bear’ + hari ‘army’.
  2. German (from Slavic): habitational name from a place so named in Mecklenburg.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bernier family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of bernier Families in the US in 1920
Number of bernier families
 101-200
 34-100		 1-33
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Deschenes/Bernier katieoaks 3
LILLIAN POTWIN-BERNIER PAT PIERCE 2
Rhode Island Bernier Cathy Myers 16
Bernier family - Worcester, Leicester terez42 0
Bernier family genealogy CBarney47 27
Louis Joseph Bernier and Joseph Elzear Bernier jennymac2 0
Bernier from the Virgin Islands Chris Burroughs 4
Amable/?Alonzo Barney/Bernier, b. abt 1840 garoldbarney 1
Bernier's family crest Yvette 7
Bernier/Noise--St. Joseph, Maskinonge Photognix 0
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