Last name origins & meanings:
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from
any of various villages called Berez(i)no, Berez(i)na, and Bereza, in
Belarus and Ukraine, all derived from an Eastern Slavic noun meaning
‘birch tree’.
- Russian: topographic name for someone who lived by a
birch tree, from Russian bereza ‘birch’ + the Russian
possessive suffix -in.
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