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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BIRKETT

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Northern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove of birch trees, from Old English bircet ‘birch copse’, a derivative of birce ‘birch’. There has been some confusion with Burkett.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)