The Bergin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,996 people carried this name — #8,291 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 74,100 people counted. That is up 5% from 3,810 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Bergin surname
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Beirgin, an altered form of Ó hAimheirgin, a personal name probably composed of the elements amhra (“wonderful”) and gin (“birth”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bergin» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890
Ireland registered 45 births for the Bergin name in 1890.
Most were registered in Leinster. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 2,000 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time. 5 of them were indexed under other spellings of the name. The Registrar-General’s note on the name: “Tipperary, Queen's, and Dublin.”
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born, 1890
Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 173 people named Bergin.
5 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Nièvre.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
146 people named Bergin is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Bergin in American newspapers,
1877–1895.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 16,429 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Bergin,
with a public archive behind them.
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James Bergin 1825–1889 · politician -
Darby Bergin 1826–1896 · physician -
James Bergin 1845–1880 · military personnel -
Alfred Bergin 1866–1944 · theologian -
Osborn Bergin 1873–1950 · teacher -
Thomas Fleming Bergin d. 1862 · inventor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bergin.
- Bergeron 20,073 · U.S. census
- Berges 762 · U.S. census
- Berget 421 · U.S. census
- Bergevin 787 · U.S. census
- Bergey 1,559 · U.S. census
- Bergez 132 · U.S. census
- Bergman 17,846 · U.S. census
- Bergmann 4,988 · U.S. census
- Bergonzi 162 · U.S. census
- Beri 357 · U.S. census
- Beringer 2,363 · U.S. census
- Berini 178 · U.S. census
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