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The Irish surname Berry originated in Galway and Mayo as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Béara.

In Scotland and northern Ireland, Berry is a variant spelling of Barrie.

In England, it is a place name from several places named with Old English byrig, meaning 'fortified manor house', such as Berry in Cambridgeshire, Greater Manchester, Suffolk, and West Sussex.

In France, it is a regional name for someone from Berry, a former province of central France.

The Swiss German origin for Berry is as a pet form of a Germanic personal name which means 'bear'.

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