Berner Family History
Berner Name Meaning
English: from the Norman personal name Bernier.English: from Old English beornan ‘to burn’, hence an
occupational name for a burner of lime (compare German
Kalkbrenner) or charcoal. It may also have denoted someone who
baked bricks or distilled spirits, or who carried out any other
manufacturing process involving burning.English: occupational
name for a keeper of hounds, from Old Norman French bern(i)er,
brenier (a derivative of bren, bran ‘bran’, on
which the dogs were fed).Southern English: topographic or
occupational name for someone who lived by or worked in a barn, from
Middle English bern, barn ‘barn’ + the suffix
-er. Compare Barnes.German: habitational
name, in Silesia denoting someone from a place called Berna (of which
there are two examples); in southern Germany and Switzerland denoting
someone from the Swiss city of Berne.German: from the Germanic
personal name Bernher meaning ‘lord of the army’.North
German: occupational name for a lime or charcoal burner (cognate with
2), from an agent derivative of Middle High German brennen ‘to
burn’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Berner Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Berner families
 82 - 161  28 - 81 |
 1 - 27  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Berner families
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19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Berner families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Berner Family Origin
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Berner Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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