Frequency: (732)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English and French: metonymic occupational name for a boatman, from Middle English, Old French barge ‘boat’, ‘barge’.
2. Dutch: variant of Berg.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
