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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Greek : Bringer of victory

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Spear thrower
  • Welsh : Son of Harry

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Berry

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Galway and Mayo) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Béara or Ó Beargha (see Barry 1).
  • Scottish and northern Irish : variant spelling of Barrie.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Swiss German : pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German bero ‘bear’ (see Baer).

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