Meaning of name Beryl

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Meaning

The name Beryl has the following meaning:

Pale green gemstone. It was considered as a good luck stone and the name was first taken on as a first name with the rise of fashion for jewel names in the late 19th century. Its popularity peaked in the 1920s but has dropped since then. It is now considered a rarity.

This name can be given to both baby boys and girls. It is a unisex name.

Popularity

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As a baby girl name, Beryl is currently not a popular baby name in the USA.

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Pronunciation

The name Beryl is pronounced as beh-rel-

Origins

Beryl originates from the Greek language.
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Related names

The following names are baby names related to Beryl and are suitable names for brothers and sisters of Beryl: Boys - Cole, Dard, Jerome, Julian, Narcisse, Nicholas, Nico, Stephen, Girls - Andria, Damalis, Damans, Damia, Damiana, Effa, Eudora, Eugenia, Iphigeneia, Kristine, Marlys, Narcissa, Both genders - Agnes

Variants

Popular Variants for the name Beryl: Beril, Berri, Berrie, Berrill, Berry, Beryl (Greek), Beryle, Berylla, Beryn

Style

We think the name Beryl should fall under the following style category: Ladylike.

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Impression

Based on our research, most people would imagine a person with the name Beryl to be: A funny, level-headed person

In one word, you might describe Beryl as a(n) "level-headed" person.

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Famous persons

The names of some famous persons by the name Beryl (or its variants) are:

Beryl Bainbridge, born on 21 November, a famous writer. Beryl Bainbridge's background: English writer. Working as an actress in the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, she started writing novels in the 1950s. Her novels 'The Bottle Factory Outing' (1974) won the Guardian Fiction Prize and 'Injury Time' (1977) won the Whitbread Novel Award. Later on, after other novels, her novels 'Every Man for Himself' in 1996 won the Whitbread Novel Award and 'Master Georgie' won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), the WH Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Some of her other novels such as 'The Dressmaker' were adapted into film. She was awarded Dame Commander of the British Empire in year 2000.