Berry (surname)

Berry is an English, Irish and French surname. It is also a surname of Khatris originating from the Punjab region of the Northern Indian subcontinent.

Some of the first British Jewish families to emigrate to the United States had "Berry" as their surname. It comes from the Polish (eastern Ashkenazic) "Jagoda", which is Russian for "berry" (Anglicised; as a Jewish family name, it is one of the Slavic variants of the Hebrew biblical male proper name Yehuda (in English, Judah). Some other Jewish variants of the "Berry" surname are Perry, Berryman, Barry, etc.

Notable people with the surname include:

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