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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Dewberry Hill in Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire, which is of uncertain origin.
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of French Dubarry, a topographic name from Anglo-Norman French barri ‘rampart’; later it denoted a suburb outside the walls of a medieval city (see Barry).

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