Berlin Family History
Berlin Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German: habitational name from the city of
Berlin, capital of Germany. This city takes its name from a West
Slavic word meaning ‘river rake’, a scaffold of beams built over a
river to prevent logs from jamming; the river in question is the
Spree. Folk etymology, however, has put a bear into the arms of the
city, as if the name were derived from Bärlin, a diminutive
of Bär ‘bear’. The German name is also found in the Hamburg
area, where it may be derived from the village of the same name, but
uncertain origin, in Holstein. In some cases the Jewish name may be a
patronymic from a pet form of the Yiddish personal name Ber
(see Berenson).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Berlin
Name Distribution of Berlin Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Berlin families
 18 - 33  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Berlin families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Berlin Family Origin
Berlin Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Berlin Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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