Surname · also German
Bürger
Bürger is a surname from Middle High German, ultimately from Old High German. It is used in German.
Original GermanBurg
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Bürger comes from Middle High German, and ultimately from Old High German.
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How it developed
From Middle High German burger, from Old High German burgāri, built from German Burg + -er.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Bürger’s family of names
In German usage, Bürger as a surname has a related form in Burg.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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