Surname Etymology and Meaning of BERKELEY
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| (origin: Sax. Local) From the town of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, England, derived from the Saxon Beorce, a beech-tree, or the box-tree, and leagh or ley, a field, and so called because of the plenty of beech-trees there growing. Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857). |
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