Släkthistoria för Berkman
Berkman Vad efternamn betyder
Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood from Middle Dutch berke ‘birch’ + man ‘man’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Berke. German and Scandinavian: variant of Bergmann and Bergman and in North America (also) an altered form of these. Possibly also an Americanized form of German (Westphalia) Berkemann: habitational name for someone from Berka (see Berka) formed with -mann ‘man’.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
