Beres Family History
Beres Name Meaning
Hungarian (Béres): occupational name for a farm laborer or casual harvest hand béres a derivative of bér ‘wage payment’. Compare Beresh and Berish . Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) (Béreš and Bereš); Croatian and Serbian (Bereš): occupational name from a Slavicized form of Hungarian béres (see 1 above). Compare Bires . Jewish (from Lithuania and Ukraine): variant of Berez .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022