Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, by way of Ancestry.com, says:"
- Possibly a reduced variant of the Irish surname O’Berry.
- Americanized spelling of Swiss German Bieri.
- Americanized spelling of Hungarian Béry, a habitational name for someone from any of various places called Bér, in Baranya, Komárom, Nógrád, Pest, Vas, or Zala counties."
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