Barley
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See also: barley
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
- 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[edit]
Barley (countable and uncountable, plural Barleys)
- A village in Hertfordshire, England.
- A village in Lancashire, England.
- A surname.
Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Barley is the 7054th 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[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Barley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 102.
Anagrams[edit]
Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -leigh
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from German
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Hertfordshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Places in Hertfordshire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in Lancashire, England
- en:Places in Lancashire, England
- English surnames
- English surnames from common nouns