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burke Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (of Anglo-Norman origin): habitational name from Burgh in Suffolk, England. This is named with Old English burh ‘fortification’, ‘fortified manor’.
  2. Norwegian: Americanized form of Børke, a habitational name from any of eight farms in southeastern Norway, named with Old Norse birki ‘birch wood’.
  3. German: variant of Burk.

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

Distribution of burke Families in the US in 1920
Number of burke families
 1747-3491
 583-1746		 1-582
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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