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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of various farmsteads named Bergo, from the dative plural form of berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
  • In some instances, perhaps a respelling of French Bergaud, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements berg- (from Middle High German bergan ‘to conceal’) + wald ‘rule’.

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