What is the name meaning of BERKELEY. Phrases containing BERKELEY
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Altered form of Swiss and South German Bürkle, Bürkli (see Burkle).English
Altered form of Swiss and South German Bürkle, Bürkli (see Burkle).English : variant of Berkeley.
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Loingsigh ‘descendant of Loingseach’, a personal name meaning ‘mariner’ (from long ‘ship’). This is now a common surname in Ireland but of different local origins, for example chieftain families in counties Antrim and Tipperary, while in Ulster and Connacht there were families called Ó Loingseacháin who later shortened their name to Ó Loingsigh and also Anglicized it as Lynch.Irish (Anglo-Norman) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Linseach, itself a Gaelicized form of Anglo-Norman French de Lench, the version found in old records. This seems to be a local name, but its origin is unknown. One family of bearers of this name was of Norman origin, but became one of the most important tribes of Galway.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or hillside, Old English hlinc, or perhaps a habitational name from Lynch in Dorset or Somerset or Linch in Sussex, all named with this word.This name was brought independently from Ireland to North America by many bearers. Jonack Lynch emigrated from Ireland to SC shortly after the first settlement of that colony in 1670. His grandson Thomas Lynch, born in 1727 in Berkeley Co., SC, was a member of both Continental Congresses, and his great-grandson, also called Thomas Lynch, born 1749 in Winyaw, SC, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English, Irish
From the Birch Tree Meadow; Place Name; Where Birches Grow
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Anglo Saxon Irish English Shakespearean
From the birch meadow.
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English
English : variant of Berkeley.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : assimilated form of Berkowitz.
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English
English : habitational name from Berkeley in Gloucestershire, named in Old English with be(o)rc ‘birch’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Scottish Barclay.Jewish (American) : assimilated form of Berkowitz.
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English : habitational name from any of various places so named. Those in Cheshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Warwickshire are named from an Old English wilig ‘willow’ + Old English lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’; one in Devon probably has Old English wīðig ‘willow’ as the first element, while one in Surrey has Old English wēoh ‘(pre-Christian) temple’.English : variant spelling of Willy 2.English : Isaac Willey is recorded in Boston, MA, in 1640, and went on to be one of the founders of New London, CT. His descendent Samuel Hopkins Willey (1821–1914) was one of the founders of the College of California at Berkeley in 1860.
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Scottish
From Berkeley.
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Scottish
Scottish form of Old English Berkeley, BARCLAY means "birch tree meadow."Â
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English
English : habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, or perhaps a variant of Brackley.Irish (co. Cork) : habitational name from the place name Berkeley.
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African
has mercy; merciful (?).
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Tamil
Goddess Durga
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English
English : from the Middle English and Old English personal name Brūning, originally a patronymic from the byname Brūn (see Brown).This name was brought independently to North America from England by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Browning was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : nickname for an unfortunate person, from Old French malheure ‘unhappy’, ‘unlucky’. The etymology from maloret ‘ill-omened’ (Latin male ‘badly’ + auguratus) is less likely for the surname that has actually survived, although it does lie behind other medieval Norman surnames of this form, now defunct.
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Arabic, Australian, Muslim
Seventh Islamic Month
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Hindu
Tulsi, Goddess Laxmi, Vishnu, Mutyam
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Anglo Saxon Welsh
Spares.
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Yiddish
(×‘Ö¼Ö°×¨Ö·×™×™× Ö°×“×œ) Yiddish name BREINDEL means "brunette."
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Arabic, Muslim
Rising; Shining
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Superior, Predominant, Fem
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The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.
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The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte.
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Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy.