German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metathesized form of
Bergman or Bergmann.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived near a river or stream, from
eastern Yiddish breg ‘shore’, ‘bank’, ‘coast’ (from Polish
brzeg) + -man.
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