as a Last Name
- 2,060
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Berke
Meaning & Origins
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or birch grove, Middle Low German berke. In Westphalia Berke, Birke also means ‘brook’, ‘stream’, and in some cases it may have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a stream.
| 12,803rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,060
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Dakota
- has the most people named Berke per capita
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