Last name: BERGIN

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BERGIN : This last name is indexed 35,322 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

BERGIN : 1: Irish (Laois and Kilkenny): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beirgin or Ó Meirgin an altered form of Ó hAimheirgin ‘descendant of Aimheirgin’ a personal name of early Irish mythology and historical tales perhaps composed of the elements amhra ‘wonderful’ + gin ‘birth’. The surname has also been Anglicized as Berrigan.2: Swedish: variant of Berg + the adjectival suffix -in a derivative of Latin -in(i)us ‘relating to’.

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