Carberry
English
editEtymology
editFrom Scottish Gaelic craobh (“tree”) + barran (“hedge”). The surname can also be an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cairbre (“descendant of Cairbre”).
Proper noun
editCarberry (countable and uncountable, plural Carberrys)
- A coastal village in East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT358699).
- A town in Manitoba, Canada.
- A habitational surname.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Carberry is the 11627th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2696 individuals. Carberry is most common among White (92.4%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Carberry”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 286.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Scottish Gaelic
- English terms derived from Irish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in East Lothian, Scotland
- en:Villages in Scotland
- en:Places in East Lothian, Scotland
- en:Places in Scotland
- en:Towns in Manitoba
- en:Towns in Canada
- en:Places in Manitoba
- en:Places in Canada
- English surnames
- English surnames from Irish
- English surnames from Scottish Gaelic