Beryl

Beryl is a given name that has overwhelmingly been borne by females with reference to the mineral beryl. It is deemed unisex due to occasional American usage as a male name, likely a variant spelling of the surname Burrell whose seeming root is the Old French bovre, a reddish-brown woolen fabric with the resultant name denoting a worker in the wool trade; Beryl may also be a variant spelling of the Yiddish (Judeo-German) male name Berel.
Like most jewel names, Beryl's use as a female name dates from the late 19th-century: dancer Beryl de Zoete and actress Beryl Mercer would have been among the earliest namesakes being born respectively in 1879 and 1882. The female name Beryl was always more popular in the British Isles than in North America; since the mid-20th century the name has become somewhat unfashionable in the British Isles.

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Hard, lustrous mineral occurring in hexagonal prisms, c. 1300, from Old French beryl (12c., Modern French béryl), from Latin beryllus, from Greek beryllos, which is perhaps from Prakrit veruliya, from Sanskrit vaidurya-, of Dravidian origin, which might be from the city of Velur (modern Belur) in southern India. In Medieval Latin berillus was applied to any precious stone of a pale green color, to fine crystal, and to eyeglasses (the first spectacle lenses may have been made of beryl), hence German Brille "spectacles," from Middle High German berille "beryl," and French besicles (plural) "spectacles," altered 14c. from Old French bericle.

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Greek origin: light green semiprecious gemstone, crystal, gemstone of varying colors, yellow-green.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Beryl Markham	1902	British writer, aviator, adventurer, racehorse trainer
2	Beryl Reid	1919	British actress
3	Beryl Bainbridge	1932	English novelist
4	Beryl Burton	1937	English racing cyclist
5	Beryl Vertue		British television producer
6	Beryl Marsden	1947	British R&B and pop singer
7	Beryl Cook	1926	British artist
8	Beryl van Praag	1969	Dutch actor, television presenter and presenter
9	Beryl Mercer	1882	Actress
10	Beryl Ingham	1901	British dancer
11	Beryl Grey	1927	British ballet dancer
12	Beryl A. Howell	1956	American judge
13	Beryl Gilroy	1924	Guyanese writer
14	Beryl Davis	1924	British singer
15	Beryl Cooke	1906	British actress
16	Beryl McBurnie	1915	Trinidad and Tobago dancer
17	Beryl Wayne Sprinkel	1923	American banker
18	Beryl Te Wiata	1925	New Zealand actor, author and scriptwriter
19	Beryl Wallace	1909	Singer, actress, dancer
20	Beryl Penrose	1930	Australian tennis player
21	Beryl Korot	1945	American artist
22	Beryl Crockford	1950	British rower
23	Beryl Beaurepaire	1923	Australian politician
24	Beryl Cunningham	1946	Actress
25	Beryl Bryden	1920	English jazz singer
26	Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle	1923	Politician; life peer
27	Beryl Swain	1936	British motorcycle rider
28	Beryl Booker	1922	American pianist
29	Beryl Rawson	1933
30	Beryl Fox	1931	Canadian film director and producer
31	Beryl Evans	1922	Australian politician
32	Beryl F. Carroll	1860	American politician
33	Beryl Smalley	1905	British historian
34	Beryl Wajsman		Canadian newspaper editor
35	Beryl Newman	1911	United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
36	Beryl Measor	1908	Actress
37	Beryl E. Escott		British writer
38	Beryl de Zoete	1879	English ballerina
39	Beryl Shipley	1926	American basketball player-coach
40	Beryl Oliver	1882	British humanitarian
41	Beryl Goldwyn	1930	Ballerina
42	Beryl Nesbitt		British actress
43	Beryl Rubinstein	1898	American musician
44	Beryl Clark	1917	American football player
45	Beryl Paston Brown	1909	English educationist
46	Beryl Gaffney	1930	Canadian politician
47	Beryl Baxter	1926	British actress
48	Beryl Bryant	1893	Actress and theatre director
49	Beryl Fletcher	1938	New Zealand novelist
50	Beryl Anthony, Jr.	1938	American politician
51	Beryl Koltz	1974	French film director
52	Beryl Richmond	1907	Major League Baseball pitcher
53	Beryl Randle	1928	British race walker
54	Beryl J. Levine	1935	American judge
55	Beryl Esembe	1972	Sociologist/Anthropologist/Philanthropist, Christian
56	Beryl Marshall		Argentinian swimmer
57	Beryl Mills	1907
58	Beryl Levinger
59	Beryl D. Roberts	1958	American politician
60	Beryl Rose Sisulu	1948
61	Beryl Nashar	1923
62	Beryl Jones	1932
63	Beryl Williams	1937	Welsh actress
64	Beryl Bartlett		South African tennis player
65	Beryl Drummond	1918
66	Beryl Grimble		British civil servant
67	Beryl Rowland
68	Beryl H. Turner		Australian tennis player
69	Beryl Noakes	1942
70	Beryl Satter
71	Beryl Elaine Jacka	1913	(1913-1989) administrator
72	Beryl Cuthbertson	2000	Badminton player
73	Beryl Greenland
74	Beryl Brintnall Simpson	1942	American botanist (born 1942)
75	Dr. Beryl Williams
76	Beryl Corner	1910	English paediatrician
77	Beryl Donkin
78	Beryl Stafford Williams
79	Beryl Splatt
80	Beryl Davies
81	Beryl Graves	1915	Wife of Robert Graves
82	Beryl Elizabeth McLeish	1902	(1902-1974) public servant and State superintendent of the Australian Women's Land Army
83	Beryl Jimmy	1970