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The bergen Surname

bergen Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, or a habitational name from any of various places named with this word.
  2. German: inflected variant of Berg (originally after a preposition, as in an or zu Bergen).
  3. Swedish: variant of Berg.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of the various German places called Bergen.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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bergen Family Facts

Distribution of bergen Families in the US in 1920
Number of bergen families
 189-375
 64-188		 1-63
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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