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burger Name Meaning and History

  1. German, English, and Dutch: status name for a freeman of a borough, especially one who was a member of its governing council, a derivative of Middle High German burc, Middle English burg ‘(fortified) town’, Middle Dutch burch. The English name is found occasionally as a surname from the 13th century onwards but is not recorded as a vocabulary word until the 16th century. The usual English term was the Old French word burgeis ‘burgess’ (see Burgess). This name is frequent throughout central and eastern Europe. It also occurs as an Ashkenazic Jewish family name, but the reasons for its adoption are uncertain.
  2. German: habitational name for someone from any of the many places called Burg.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of burger Families in the US in 1920
Number of burger families
 244-485
 82-243		 1-81
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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