Bergen Family History
Bergen Name Meaning
Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill,
or a habitational name from any of various places named with this
word.German: inflected variant of Berg (originally after a
preposition, as in an or zu Bergen).Swedish:
variant of Berg.Jewish (Ashkenazic):
habitational name from any of the various German places called Bergen.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bergen
Name Distribution of Bergen Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bergen families
 12 - 22  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Bergen last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bergen census records
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Bergen Family Origin
Bergen Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bergen Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bergen census records
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Military Service by Bergen
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