Berkeley

  • Boy
  • 8 letters
Anglo-Saxon From the birch meadow.
English Derived from the Old English for birch-wood. Used as a surname more frequently than a first name. Lives at the birch tree meadow.
Irish The birch tree meadow. Also see Barclay and Burke.
Literary A literary name from Shakespeare's King Richard The Second, where it belongs to earl Berkeley. 'King Richard III' A gentleman attending on Lady Anne.

Berkeley is a boy’s name of Anglo-Saxon, English, Irish and Literary origin. Meaning in Anglo-Saxon: From the birch meadow. Meaning in English: Derived from the Old English for birch-wood. Used as a surname more frequently than a first name. Lives at the birch tree meadow. Meaning in Irish: The birch tree meadow. Also see Barclay and Burke. A literary name from Shakespeare’s King Richard The Second, where it belongs to earl Berkeley. ‘King Richard III’ A gentleman attending on Lady Anne. The name has 8 letters.

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