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BURKE
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English
English : habitational name from a place name that is very common in central and northern England. The derivation in most cases is from Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
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English
English : status name from Middle English burghman, borughman (Old English burhmann) ‘inhabitant of a (fortified) town’ (see Burke), especially one holding land or buildings by burgage (see Burgess).
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English
English : variant of Birkin (see Burkins).
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English Irish
The birch tree meadow. Also see Barclay and Burke.
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English
English : status name, from Middle English burghman, borughman (Old English burhmann) ‘inhabitant of a (fortified) town’ (see Burke), especially one holding land or buildings by burgage (see Burgess).Americanized spelling of German Buhrmann (see Buhrman).
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French English Teutonic
Lives in a fortress.
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English
English : variant of Burger.
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German
Variant spelling of German Burk, BURKE means "castle, fort, protection."
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Lancashire, recorded in the early 13th century as D(e)ukesbiri, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Deowuc or Duc(c) (both of uncertain origin) + Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke).
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English
English : habitational name from Bury in Lancashire (now part of Greater Manchester), or from some other similarly named place. The place name comes from the dative case, byrig, of Old English burh ‘fortified place’. Compare Burke, originally used after a preposition (e.g. Richard atte Bery).French : habitational name from places so named in Marne and Oise. The place name is from Buriacum, the name of a Gallo-Roman estate, composed of the personal name Burius + the locative suffix -acum.German : probably a variant spelling of Buri. According to Gottschald, however, it is from French Purry.Czech (Burý) : topographic name from bur ‘pine wood’.Czech (Burý) : descriptive nickname from burý ‘dark’.
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English
English : from the Old English personal name, Burgheard (see Burkett).
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English
English : variant spelling of Burkett.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : status name from Middle English burge(i)s, Old French burgeis ‘inhabitant and (usually) freeman of a (fortified) town’ (see Burke), especially one with municipal rights and duties. Burgesses generally had tenure of land or buildings from a landlord by burgage. In medieval England burgage involved the payment of a fixed money rent (as opposed to payment in kind); in Scotland it involved payment in service, guarding the town. The -eis ending is from Latin -ensis (modern English -ese as in Portuguese). Compare Burger.Thomas Burgess came from England to MA in about 1630 and eventually settled in Sandwich, MA.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or tumulus, Old English beorg, a cognate of Old High German berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (see Berg). This name has become confused with derivatives of Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke). Reaney suggests a further derivation from Old English būr ‘bower’ + hūs ‘house’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Burke.
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English
English : variant spelling of Birks.
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English
English : from the Old English personal name Burgheard (see Burkett).Dutch and German : variant of Burkhardt.Thomas Burchard came from London, England, to MA in 1635 aboard the True Love, and by 1652 he was in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard.
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English
English : variant of Burkett.Dutch and German (also Swiss) : from the personal name Burkhart.
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English
English : habitational name from any of three places in Devon named Burridge, from Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke) + hrycg ‘ridge’.English : from the Middle English personal name Burrich, Old English Burgrīc, composed of the elements burh, burg ‘fortress’, ‘stronghold’ + rīc ‘power’.
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English
English : from an Old English personal name, Burgheard, composed of the elements burh, burg ‘fort’ (see Burke) + heard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. The name was reintroduced into Middle English by the Normans in the forms Bou(r)chart, Bocard. In the form Burkhard it was a very popular medieval German name. There has been considerable confusion between this English surname and Birkett.Perhaps also a variant of German Burkhart.
BURKE
BURKE
Girl/Female
Anglo, British, English
Noble
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Anglo, British, Celtic, English, French
From the Green Hill
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Indian
Winner, Gainer
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Tamil
Blossoming
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American, British, Christian, English, Indian, Jamaican
Sculptor; One who Carves Wood; Wood Carver; Carver of Wood or Stone
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Hindu, Indian
Feather
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English
English : from the Old English personal name Dēorwine, composed of the elements dēor ‘dear’ + wine ‘friend’. This name is attested in the 10th century, but it was not common; nevertheless it may have survived long enough to become a Middle English personal name and so given rise to the surname.English : habitational name from Darwen in Lancashire, named from the Darwin river (earlier Derwent) on which it stands. This seems to be a British name derived from a word meaning ‘oak’.
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Muslim
Present, Manifest
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Hindu, Indian
Sky
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Tamil
Perfect woman
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BURKE
v. t.
To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
imp. & p. p.
of Burke
v. t.
To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Burke