Barley

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English

Etymology

The village in Hertfordshire is from "Beora's ley," from *Beora +‎ -ley (“clearing, lea”). The former is a personal name from Old English bera (“bear”).
The village in Lancashire is from Old English bar (“boar”) or bere (“barley”) + leah (“clearing”).
As an English surname, from the noun barley. As a south German surname, spelling variant of Behrle, Beerli, themselves related to the noun bear.

Proper noun

Barley (countable and uncountable, plural Barleys)

A village in Hertfordshire, England.
A village in Lancashire, England.
A surname.

Statistics

According to the 2010 United States Census, Barley is the 7054^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4744 individuals. Barley is most common among White (74.49%) and Black/African American (18.93%) individuals.

Further reading

Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Barley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 102.

Anagrams

Braley, barely, bearly, bleary

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