Is There a Berkley Coat of Arms?

Berkley is one more way Berkeley has been written over the centuries. Name scholars give the meaning as “Birch wood”.

• Berkley drops the “e” of Berkeley, a shortening that clerks often made.
• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• The 2010 census count for Berkley in the United States was 4,750, good for rank 7,050. That puts it among the top 10,000 US surnames.

Arms associated with the name

There is no single Berkley family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Get the complete Berkley report, with a museum-style coat of arms.