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Berk Name Meaning
Dutch, Czech, and Polish: from a reduced form of a Germanic personal name formed with ber ‘bear’ (see Bernhard).Dutch and North German (van Berk): topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German berke ‘birch’. DEB.German: of Slavic (Sorbian) origin, an occupational name for a collector of taxes.Slovenian: unexplained.Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Berg.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Berk Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Berk families
 51 - 100  18 - 50 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Berk families
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18 - 34 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Berk census records
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Berk Family Origin
Berk Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Berk
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Berk Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Berk census records
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Berk Civil War Service Records
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