Berkel Family History
Berkel Name Meaning
Dutch (mainly Van Berkel) and German: habitational name from any of the villages so called in North Brabant and South Holland or from Berkel in Hamelin in Lower Saxony Germany. The placename is derived from berk ‘birch’ and lo ‘open space in a wood’. Compare Barkley Pirkle and Pirtle .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022