Barwick
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Frequency: (1424)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: habitational name from any of various places called Barwick, for example in Norfolk, Somerset, and West Yorkshire, from Old English bere ‘barley’ + wīc ‘outlying farm’, i.e. a granary lying some distance away from the main village.
2. North German: habitational name from a place called Berwick, near Soest, in Westphalia.
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