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The burge Surname

burge Name Meaning and History

  1. English (chiefly Somerset and Dorset): variant of Bridge, Old English brycg, with metathesis of u and r, as exemplified in several place names of this origin in various parts of southern England.
  2. German (Bürge): from Middle High German bürge ‘bailsman’, ‘guarantor’.
  3. In some cases maybe an altered spelling of Swiss Bürgi (see Burgi).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of burge Families in the US in 1920
Number of burge families
 53-103
 18-52		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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