Given name & surname
Bérenger
“to carry”·“spear”
Bérenger is a masculine given name. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bérenger is built from elements meaning “to carry” and “spear”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Bérenger’s family of names
In French usage, Bérenger has a feminine form in Bérengère. In French usage, Bérenger has a conventional equivalent in the English form Berengar. In French usage, Bérenger has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form BERENGARIO.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bérenger has relatives in 10 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Berenguelequivalent
- BerengarEnglish, Polish
- Bérengèrefeminine form · French
- Berengariusequivalent
- БеранжеRussian
- BerenguièrOccitan
- Berengaulij-MC
- BerengarioItalian
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People named Bérenger
- Berenguer Ramon of ProvenceFrench noble1114–1144
- Bérenger SaunièreFrench priest (1852-1917)
- Berengar Fredol the ElderCatholic cardinal (1250–1323)
- Bérenger de LandoreRoman Catholic archbishop1262–1330
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