Frequency: (102)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Jewish (Eastern Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Ber (see Baer).
GIVEN NAMES: Russian 8%; Jewish 8%; Polish 4%. Leonid (2), Evgeny, Fanya, Mikhail; Herschel; Andrzej.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
