Berger

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• German, Dutch, Swedish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived in the mountains or hills (see Berg).
• Norwegian : habitational name from any of various farms so named with the plural of Berg ‘mountain’.
• French : occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French bergier (Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’).