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Origine of last name

BERGER : 1: German Dutch Swedish and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in the mountains or hills (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Berg">Berg</a>). The surname of German origin is also found in many other European countries e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine) Russia Poland Czechia Hungary and Croatia and Slovenia often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic topographic names or surnames. As a Jewish name it is mainly artificial. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Bargar">Bargar</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Barger">Barger</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Barker">Barker</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Barrier">Barrier</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Barriger">Barriger</a>.2: French: occupational name from Old French bergier ‘shepherd’ (from Late Latin berbicarius from berbex ‘ram’). It is also found in England as a surname of Huguenot origin. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Shepard">Shepard</a>.3: Norwegian: habitational name from any of various farms so named with the plural of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Berg">Berg</a> ‘mountain’.4: French Canadian: shortened form of German Nürnberger (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Nurnberger">Nurnberger</a>).

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