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Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Birch meadow
Boy name variations
How Popular Is The Name Barclay
Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish : habitational name of English origin, from Berkeley in Gloucestershire, named in Old English with be(o)rc ‘birch’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
- The surname was brought to Scotland from southwest England in the 12th century; Walter de Berchelai or Berkelai was Chamberlain of Scotland in 1165.