Berk Family History
Berk Name Meaning
Dutch and Polish: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name formed with ber(n) ‘bear’ e.g. Bernhard . Dutch (Van Berk) and North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood from Middle Dutch Middle Low German berke ‘birch’. Sorbian (Běrk): occupational name for a collector of taxes from a derivative of braś ‘to take’. It is found mainly in Germanized forms such as Berg and Birke . Slovenian: probably a nickname from an old spelling of brk ‘a hair under the nose’ (singular of brki ‘mustache’). Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Berg . Turkish: ornamental name or nickname from berk ‘firm strong’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022