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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and French (Alsace) : unexplained.
  • Possibly a respelling of French Berot, which Morlet identifies as an altered form of Berost, a pet form of a Germanic compound name formed with ber ‘bear’.

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