Beerens Surname Guide

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Meaning of the name

Clerks wrote Behrens in many ways, and Beerens is one that stuck. Taken at its root, Beerens points to “Son of Bernd (Bernhard)”.

Spelled with “e” instead of “h”, Beerens shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. The same family of names includes Beerends, Berens and Behrends. 185 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Beerens name at birth.

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