English: from Middle English bark ‘bark’ (Old Norse
borkr), hence a metonymic occupation name for a tanner. See
also Barker.North German: topographic name for someone who
lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from berke ‘birch’,
or alternatively for someone who lived on a mountain (see
Barg).Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): of uncertain origin,
perhaps a variant of Barak.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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