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The burk Surname

burk Name Meaning and History

  1. Swiss German: from an Alemannic short form of the personal name Burkhard (see Burkhart).
  2. German: habitational name from the common place names Burk and Burg.
  3. Northern English: variant of Birch.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of burk Families in the US in 1920
Number of burk families
 214-425
 72-213		 1-71
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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