Berkeley Family History
Berkeley Name Meaning
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 . Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of Berkowitz .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022