Where the Berry name comes from

Berry is a surname with several unrelated origins. In English it comes from Middle English, as a variant of Bury and, in some dialects, of Barry.

A separate line began with the Polish Jagoda, the Polish word for berry, which was anglicised to Berry. As a Jewish family name, it is one of the Slavic variants of the Hebrew biblical name Yehuda, Judah in English. Perry, Berryman and Barry are other Jewish variants of the same name. Berry is also a spelling of Beri, a surname from the Punjab region of the northern Indian subcontinent. The 2010 United States Census counted 132,812 people named Berry, which made it the 222nd most common surname in the country.