as a Last Name
- 3,931
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Barley
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of various places called Barley. Those in Lancashire and West Yorkshire are named with Old English bār ‘wild boar’ or bere ‘barley’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. A place of the same name in Hertfordshire has as its first element an unattested Old English byname Be(o)ra (from bera ‘bear’).
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- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,931
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Virginia
- has the most people named Barley per capita
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