Barley Family History
Barley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Barley. Those in Lancashire and West Yorkshire are named with Old
English bar ‘wild boar’ or bere ‘barley’ +
leah ‘woodland clearing’. A place of the same name in
Hertfordshire has as its first element an unattested Old English
byname Be(o)ra (from bera ‘bear’).English:
metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of barley, from Old
English bærlic, originally an adjective derivative of
bær ‘barley’ (a byform of bere).Altered
spelling of South German Behrle or Beerli, from a
Germanic personal name formed with Old High German bero ‘bear’
(the animal).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Barley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Barley families
 128 - 253  43 - 127 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Barley families
|
369 - 735 124 - 368 |
1 - 123 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barley families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Barley Family Origin
Barley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Barley
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Barley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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