Family name origins & meanings
- Altered spelling of German Birkhäuser, a habitational name for someone from any of several places (in Westphalia, Bavaria, and Thuringia) named Birkhausen, a compound of Old High German birka ‘birch’ + hūs ‘house’.
- Altered spelling of German Berghäuser, a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Berghausen, for example in Württemberg.