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Bergmans

Bergmans, also written Bergmann. Attested in Belgium, United States of America, France, Denmark, borne by about 1,113 people in the registers this map holds.

Also written

A person linked these — Wikidata's «said to be the same as», or a family archive that worked it out from documents.

Bergmann

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

Bergmanns

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

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What Wikidata says this name is

Copied from Wikidata, not worked out here. It is crowd-sourced and wrong in places, which is why the item is linked below rather than the claim simply repeated.

  • German · Dutch the language of the name

    Which is not where a family is from. A Polish surname can be borne by people whose forebears never saw Poland, and often is.

  • locational surname · occupational surname kind of surname
  • Named after mountain · miner what the name is from

Q37037855 on Wikidata ↗ — the item every line above came from.

What Wiktionary says this name is

Copied from the surname template on Wiktionary, not worked out here, and not from its etymology prose. Anyone may edit it; the page and the revision it was read at are linked below.

  • Dutch recorded as a surname in these languages

    A language here is the language of the NAME, not a country a family came from — the same caveat the Wikidata section carries, and worth repeating rather than assumed read.

Bergmans on Wiktionary ↗ — read at revision 81782417. Text from Wiktionary, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where it came from

No place of this name is in the gazetteer, so this map says nothing about where the name came from. Search a surname anywhere else and you will be told an origin — that it is Latin, or Italian, or means «joyful». That is etymology, it is usually unsourced, and it is a different question from the one answered here.

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 4 countries: Belgium, United States of America, France, DenmarkDenmark — attested, not countedFrance — 40 peopleUnited States of America — 105 peopleBelgium — 968 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. A hollow ring is attested but not counted — Denmark publishes which surnames exist and not how many carry each, and a family archive finds a name without counting heads. Sizing those by a number nobody published would invent it. Blank is not absence. This draws the 4 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.
Belgium, by commune. 968 people in 68 of Belgium's 565 communes, counted by Statbel. The biggest is Lommel with 120. This is the only country here that can be drawn this way — every other register counts a country and stops, so a blank elsewhere is a gap in what states publish, not in the name.
68 places drawn, the largest being Lommel, Antwerpen, Pelt, Mol, Oudsbergen, Bree, Maaseik, Genk, Beersel, EssenRavels — 8Stabroek — 8Brasschaat — 8Jemeppe-sur-Sambre — 9Dilsen-Stokkem — 9Hamont-Achel — 9Eupen — 9Geraardsbergen — 9Scherpenheuvel-Zichem — 9Tienen — 10Kortenberg — 10Sint-Genesius-Rode — 10Rumst — 10Houthalen-Helchteren — 11Balen — 11Schoten — 11Beringen — 12Hamme — 12Dendermonde — 12Halle — 12As — 13Peer — 14Hasselt — 14Geel — 15Bocholt — 16Gent — 16Hechtel-Eksel — 17Leuven — 17Diest — 20Pajottegem — 23Essen — 23Beersel — 25Genk — 27Maaseik — 28Bree — 30Oudsbergen — 36Mol — 47Pelt — 50Antwerpen — 56Lommel — 120

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Belgium

968 Borne — a state counted them — Family names by municipality, 1 January 2026 (Statbel, TA_POP_LST_2026).

Whose archive to write to

14,912 of 24,426 volumes held for Belgium overlap the 1800s, 1830s, 1840s, 1880s, 1890s and 1950s — the decades Bergmans is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Bergmans. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records, Cemeteries and burials, Church and parish registers, Censuses and population lists. See everything this atlas holds for Belgium →

United States of America

105 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census; Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2000 Census.

Whose archive to write to

138,018 of 528,875 volumes held for United States of America overlap the 1900s, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s and 1980s — the decades Bergmans is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Bergmans. The commonest kinds: Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for United States of America →

France

40 Borne — a state counted them — Fichier des noms de famille 1891–2000 (INSEE, fichier national).

Whose archive to write to

244 of 1,513 volumes held for France overlap the 1810s, 1880s, 1910s, 1950s and 1990s — the decades Bergmans is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Bergmans. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records, Church and parish registers, Censuses and population lists. See everything this atlas holds for France →

Denmark

Borne — a state counted them — Navne registreret i Danmark, January 2020 (Danmarks Statistik, republished by Digitaliseringsstyrelsen).

Whose archive to write to

1,318 of 4,099 volumes held for Denmark overlap the 1860s, 1870s, 1930s, 1940s and 1970s — the decades Bergmans is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Bergmans. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Civil registration and vital records, Probate, land and notarial, Cemeteries and burials. See everything this atlas holds for Denmark →

When it was being born, in France

INSEE counts births by surname and decade from the état civil, 1891 to 2000 — the only dated evidence in this dataset. A name that starts at zero and climbs arrived; a name that falls to nothing left, died out, or emigrated, and the decade it stops is the decade to stop searching. It counts births registered in France, so a family that emigrated in 1900 simply stops appearing, which is information rather than a defect. This name's first French births fall in 1901–1910 and its last in 1991–2000.

  • 1891–1900 —
  • 1901–1910 1
  • 1911–1920 1
  • 1921–1930 6
  • 1931–1940 —
  • 1941–1950 3
  • 1951–1960 8
  • 1961–1970 5
  • 1971–1980 3
  • 1981–1990 5
  • 1991–2000 8

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

Belgium
United States of America
France
Denmark
  • Denmark 4 eras Denmark–Norway → Denmark, after the loss of Norway → Prussia, then the German Empire → Denmark

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