Berger is a surname in both German and French, although there is no etymological connection between the names in the two languages.
The French surname is an occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French bergier (Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex 'ram').
The German surname derives from the word Berg, the word for "mountain" or "hill", and means "a resident on a mountain or hill", or someone from a toponym Berg, derived from the same.
The pronunciation of the English name may sometimes be /ˈbɜːrdʒər/ BUR-jər, following the French phonetics [bɛʁʒe] ⓘ; the German one is [ˈbɛʁɡɐ] ⓘ, anglicized as /ˈbɜːrɡər/ BUR-gər.
Notable people with this surname include: