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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Belgian (Van den Burg) : topographic name for someone who lived by a citadel or stonghold, from Middle Dutch burch, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example Burch in South Holland or Burcht in Antwerp province, Belgium.

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