Last name: BERKELEY
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BERKELEY : This last name is indexed 125,392 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BERKELEY : 1: English: habitational name from one or more of the numerous places so named such as Berkeley in Gloucestershire named in Old English with be(o)rc ‘birch’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Scottish Barclay.2: Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of Berkowitz.
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