What We Know About the Bergel Surname

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Family name meaning

Anyone researching Bergel should also look under Berg. The family name meaning is “Dweller on a hill”, the same as for Berg.

With the diminutive -el, Bergel is a pet form of Berg that became a surname in its own right. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. You may also find the name written Berge, Bergl and Bergh. Spanish statistics put 131 people with Bergel in first position and 99 in second. From 1891 to 2000, 137 births in France were registered under Bergel.

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