Berkes Family History
Berkes Name Meaning
North German: topographic name for someone who lived among
birch trees, from a derivative of Middle Low German berke
‘birch’.Hungarian: from a pet form of the
ecclesiastical names Bernát, Hungarian form of
Bernhard, or Bertalan, Hungarian form of
Bartholomew.English: variant spelling of
Birks (see Birch).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Berkes Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Berkes families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Berkes families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Berkes Family Origin
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Berkes Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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