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This is going to sound mean, but it is ugly to me. It is not feminine sounding at all, and it seems pretentious. I don't like place names anyway, but this isn't a good one at all.

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Also, I'm probably the only one, but when I hear it and its probable nn Berk, it sounds like Burke to me. I associate that with William Burke and William Hare, who murdered people in 1800s England when grave robbing proved lucrative. This was during a time when laws allowed scientific study on bodies to be done on only cadavers from recently executed criminals. They wanted to supply more bodies than they could dig, so they started making them. These two would sit on the victims chest and hold the mouth and nose closed. That way, there wouldn't be visible marks on the body to show murder (unless you know what to look for), so they weren't suspected at first. Eventually they were caught, and now, "to burke" is an actual verb meaning to kill someone by smothering, or to stifle.
More info: http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/burke/index_1.html

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So even though that was long and somewhat unnecessary :) I just wanted to demonstrate one of the reasons I dislike the name. But anyway...

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