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berry Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (Galway and Mayo): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Béara or Ó Beargha (see Barry 1).
  2. Scottish and northern Irish: variant spelling of Barrie.
  3. English: habitational name from any of several places named with Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified manor house’, ‘stronghold’, such as Berry in Devon or Bury in Cambridgeshire, Greater Manchester, Suffolk, and West Sussex.
  4. French: regional name for someone from Berry, a former province of central France, so named with Latin Boiriacum, apparently a derivative of a Gaulish personal name, Boirius or Barius. In North America, this name has alternated with Berrien.
  5. Swiss German: pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German bero ‘bear’ (see Baer).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of berry Families in the US in 1920
Number of berry families
 571-1139
 191-570		 1-190
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Berry's from South Boston area wildhorses10 8
(Sallie) Emma Berry Tiffany b. 1866 - Hardy Co., W. Virginia noodleandbear 1
Berry's of North Eastern Massaschusetts 1630-1900 KarinBerry1964 4
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Thomas, William, and Sanford Berry lorenej1385 4
Dr. John T. Berry and Mary Susan Hodge Descendants JohnEarlSpencer 0
Mehitable Preston Berry, Benjamin and Ruth Estes Berry Maggie_Connell 0
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