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Origin: burkna - meaning a species of fern. Total of 7 farms, two of them still inhabited of people besring the name. Earlier than 1900 few took the name to other places. It was not considered family name, but indication thet you owned or rented a farm named so. Fsthers name with surfix son or daughter was the correct name. In the 19th century people moving away brought the name with them, regardless of how short a term they had lived there, and their parents having been born on other farms. Example: Ole Lsrsson Burkelands father was named Lars Steffensen Dale.