Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or tumulus, Old English beorg, a cognate of Old High German berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (see Berg). This name has become confused with derivatives of Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke). Reaney suggests a further derivation from Old English būr ‘bower’ + hūs ‘house’.