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.
Swiss German: pet form of a Germanic personal name
formed with Old 5. High German bero ‘bear’ (see Baer).Source
