Bere meaning | Last name Bere origin

Bere is a form of Beer. Two places on the banks of the Tamar, in county of Devon, are called Beer-Alston and Beer -Ferris, while two others in Dorsetshire bear the names of Beer-Hacket and Beer-Regis.

The form of Bear. A gentleman in Kent, some years since, rejoiced in the christian and sur-(or rather un-christian and sur-ly) names of Savage Bear. English Surname Although I do not recollect any other instance ofthis name in modern English, the nomenclature of many European countries, both personal and local, abounds with it in various forms.

A writer in Edinb. Rev. April, 1855, observes that "a proper name obtained from the bear, is still pre servedin Bernard, while Ursus and Urso are names of great antiquity. St. Ursus belongs to the V. century Ursus, Ursinus, De Ursinis, are found in England after the Conquest as names of clergymen, not unfrequently foreigners. But the Bear had ceased to exist in England so long before hereditary surnames were adopted, that traces of the old king of the nor thern forest are mainly to be found in such surnames as are derived from the names of places. Urswick, in Lancashire, is a source of such a surname." [This is a misapprehension. Urswick is more likely from eofer, Anglo-Saxon for wild-boar, and wic. Some scholars however have no faith in the derivation of one word from two lan guages). "Some of the names Berens, Berridge, Berworth, Berney, Berenham, Beresford, Berford, Berewick, Baring, Bearcroft, Bearsley, may be derived from the bear; but bere, the Anglo-Saxon for barley, which was much cultivated in early times, is a more probable etymology for most of them. On the continent, Berlin derives its name from the bear, which is the city's armorial bearing, as it is of the canton and city of Berne. The bear has been highly honoured in the Scandinavian peninsula, where many surnames compounded with Björn, indicate a derivation from him. He gave his name to Albert the Bear, Margrave of Brandenburg, who flourished early in the XII. century. At Rome, he produced the Orsini, in France, St. Ursus, and in Britain, St. Ursula, who is said to have headed the 11,000 virgins in achieving the honours of martyrdom at Cologne, and who in more recent times has been patroness of the Ursuline sisters, and of the celebrated Princess Des Ursins."

Bere is variant of Beer. The bear or boar.

Family name is variant form of the Bear. Dweller at the sign of the bear; one thought to possess bearlike qualities. The bear was the king of beasts in the north of Europe.

Family name Bere is the variation of Beers. Dweller at, or in, the wood or grove.