Meaning and Origin of: Bergen

Boy name origins & meanings

• German : Mountain dweller
• Old English : Free citizen; shopkeeper

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• 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.
• German : inflected variant of Berg (originally after a preposition, as in an or zu Bergen).
• Swedish : variant of Berg.
• Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of the various German places called Bergen.

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