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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scandinavian : variant of Bjelke, a noble family name dating back to around 1500, from bjelke ‘beam’, a device which appears in their coat of arms.
  • German : reduced form of Bielecke, from a pet form of a personal name formed with the Germanic stem bil ‘axe’.

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