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Bergquist Ranking

In the United States, the name Bergquist is the 8,593rd most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1


United States Bergquist migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Bergquist Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Oluf Bergquist, aged 29, who arrived in New York, NY in 1869 2
  • John Bergquist, who landed in Mississippi in 1874 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Bergquist (post 1700) +

  • Mrs. N. T. Bergquist, American Republican politician, Alternate Delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, 1960 3
  • Kenneth G. Bergquist, American politician, U.S. Attorney for Idaho, 1959-61 3
  • Harold J. Bergquist, American Democratic Party politician, Democratic-Farmer-Labor Candidate for U.S. Representative from Minnesota 2nd District, 1980 3
  • Dame Patricia Rose Bergquist DBE, FRSNZ (1933-2009), widely-known New Zealand expert on anatomy and taxonomy


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 4) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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