Explore the Family Name Rasberry

The meaning of Rasberry

1. English (Norfolk): perhaps a habitational name from any of several minor places now named Raspberry, such as Raspberry in Walcote (Lincolnshire), most of which are likely to have been named with Old English burg ‘fortified place’ as the final element. 2. English (Norfolk): sometimes variant of a habitational name from Monks or Princes Risborough (Buckinghamshire), Riseborough Hill in Sinnington (North Yorkshire), or Risbury in Humber (Herefordshire). The Buckinghamshire placenames derive from Old English hrīsen ‘growing with brushwood’ (adjective formed from hrīs ‘brushwood’) + beorg ‘hill, mound’. The North Yorkshire placename derives from Old English hrīs + beorg. The Herefordshire placename derives from Old English hrīs + burg ‘fortified place’. 3. English (Norfolk): perhaps a habitational name from Ratsbury in Lynton (Devon), from Old English rēad ‘red’ + sprǣg ‘brushwood, twigs’. 4. English (Norfolk): sometimes a variant of Roseberry. 5. Variant of Raspberry 2, a surname of French Canadian origin (see Laframboise ‘the raspberry’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.