Last Name BARCLAY

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Meaning Local: Of Berkeley, a parish and market town in county Gloucester.
Originally Berkely. The name signifies a birchfield, and was assumed from the town of Berkely in Gloucestershire. Roger de Berkely, a Saxon living at the time of the conquest was the grandfather of Theobald de Berkely, who settled in Scotland, and was the ancester of the Barclays.
Local: A corruption of Berkeley; a town in Gloucestershire, England, derived from the Saxon beorce, a beech-tree, and leagh or ley, a field, and so called because of the plenty of beech-trees growing there.
Origin English, Scottish, Anglo-Saxon, Jewish, French, German, Irish, Austrian, Belgian

Rank 2,965 (2000 US census) 2,705 (1990 US census)
Count 11,160 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 83.75%, or 9346 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 12.03%, or 1343 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.66%, or 74 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.32%, or 36 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.25%, or 140 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.98%, or 221 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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