Name «Bercha»

The name 'Bercha' is an ancient South Slavic masculine name that arose from the patterns of names like Golcha, Danych, Myrcha, and Stanch. This name likely formed based on compound Slavic names such as Berivoy, Berigoy, Berimir, and Berislav, through their shortening and the addition of the suffix 'ch' or 'cha', which indicates a younger or immature person.The oldest record of the name 'Bercha' is found in the Varadin registers and dates back to the year 1341 from the Pritysyan County of Boršod (record: B e r c h a reus, meaning 'defendant Bercha'). Most subsequent entries, where the name 'Bercha' appears as a surname alongside a given name, also originate from the Carpathian region: in 1450, a nobleman (shl.) 'B e r c h e' from the village of Dibrava is noted; in 1548, a nobleman (shl.) 'Luc. B e r s e' from the village of Uhli is recorded.Interestingly, almost all records of this name come from the Ukrainian-Romanian ethnic borderland. Only one record of the name 'Bercha' has been documented among the Cossacks of the Zaporizhian Host in 1649.