Berenson Family History
Berenson Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Ber ‘bear’ + German Sohn ‘son’. Compare Bernson Possibly also an Americanized form of German Berendsen or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname (see Bernson ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press