Berk Family History
- Berk Name Meaning
- Dutch, Czech, and Polish: from a reduced form of a Germanic personal name formed with ber ‘bear’ (see Bernhard). Dutch and North German (van Berk): topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German berke ‘birch’. German: of Slavic (Sorbian) origin, an occupational name for a collector of taxes. Slovenian: unexplained. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Berg.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 129,707 Historical Documents with Berk on Ancestry
- 79,276 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 24,451 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,828 Military Records
- 6,497 Immigration Records
- 15,655 Member Trees
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Number of Berk families
 18 - 34  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Berk families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Berk census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Berk census records
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