Wednesday, August 5, 2009

What's in a name? Boza

BERNIER
  1. French: from the personal name Bernier, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements bern ‘bear’ + hari ‘army’.
  2. German (from Slavic): habitational name from a place so named in Mecklenburg.

Place of
Origin
Bernier Immigrants
France11
Germany10
Canada4
Mecklenburg4
Hamburg3
Italy2
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.

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