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Beryl
	A gold and beryl ring. The name is taken from the beryl used to make jewelry.
Gender	Unisex
Origin
Word/name	(female) Greek
Meaning	beryl

Beryl is a given name with reference to the mineral beryl. Although more commonly a feminine given name, it has been used in the past as a masculine name, predominantly in the United States. Use as a male name likely comes from 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.^{[citation needed]} Beryl may also be a variant spelling of the Yiddish male name Berel.

Like most jewel names, Beryl's use as a feminine 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^{[citation needed]}.

Females

Females named Beryl include:

Claire Adams (née Beryl Vere Nassau Adams), actress and benefactor
Beryl Amedee, American politician
Beryl T. (Sue) Atkins, British lexicographer
Beryl Bainbridge, novelist
Beryl Baxter (née M. Ivory), actress
Beryl Beaurepaire, feminist
Beryl Bernay, journalist, painter, and photographer
Beryl Bender Birch, yoga teacher
Beryl Booker, pianist
Beryl Brewin (1910–1999), New Zealand marine zoologist
Beryl Paston Brown, academic and teacher
Beryl Annear Bryant, actress and theatrical producer
Beryl Bryden, jazz singer
Beryl Burton, racing cyclist
Beryl W. Chan, wife of Gerald Chan
Beryl G.S. Chung, Cannes Lion award winning designer
Beryl Christie, mother of Donald J. Harris
Beryl Cook, artist best known for her paintings
Beryl Cooke, actress
Beryl Corner, doctor
Beryl Crockford (formerly Mitchell; née Martin), rower
Beryl Mildred Cryer, writer
Beryl Cunningham, actress and model
Beryl Davis, jazz singer
Beryl Dean, British religious embroiderer
Beryl May Dent (1900–1977), English mathematical physicist, technical librarian, and programmer
Beryl de Zoete, ballet dancer
Beryl Killeen Donkin, legal secretary
Beryl-Adolphs Nalowa Esembe, sociologist and anthropologist
Beryl Evans (née Williams), politician
Beryl Evans, murder victim by John Christie
Beryl Evans, actress, wife of Frank Thornton
Beryl Ferguson, South African politician
Beryl Fletcher, feminist author
Beryl Fox, documentary film director and producer
Beryl Gaffney, politician
Béryl Gastaldello, swimmer
Beryl Gilroy (née Answick), novelist and teacher
Beryl Goldwyn Karney, ballet dancer
Beryl Cynthia Gordon, wife of Harry Bloom
Beryl Grant, nurse, community worker, and public servant
Beryl Grey, ballet dancer
Beryl "Beb" Hearnden, farmer, journalist, and author
Beryl D. Hines, Cold War-era journalist and aunt of Amy Brenneman
Beryl A. Howell, judge
Beryl Hutchinson, British volunteer ambulance driver and officer of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
Beryl Ingham, dancer and actress
Beryl Elaine Jacka, administrator
Beryl Jones (née Davies), politician
Beryl Koltz, film director
Beryl Korot, video artist
Béryl Laramé, athlete
Beryl J. Levine, female justice
Beryl Levinger, academic and teacher
Beryl Ann Longino, wife of Lloyd Bentsen
Beryl Markham (née Clutterbuck), horse trainer and aviator
Beryl Marsden, singer
Beryl Marshall, swimmer
Beryl McBurnie, dancer
Beryl McLeish (née King), civil servant and wartime superintendent
Beryl Measor, actress
Beryl Mercer, actress
Beryl Mills, advertising agent, librarian, and beauty queen
Beryl Ann "Bel" Mooney, journalist and broadcaster
Beryl Nashar, geologist, academic, and teacher
Beryl Noakes, swimmer
Beryl Oliver, British charity administrator
Beryl Penrose, tennis player
Beryl H. Potter (born Edna Beryl Hinkle), American astronomical researcher
Beryl Potter, Canadian disability activist
Beryl Powell, wife of Adam Clayton Powell III, daughter of Eileen Slocum and John Slocum
Beryl Preston, British sailor
Beryl Radin, scholar, scientist, editor, and teacher
Beryl Randle, race walker and an athletics administrator
Beryl Rawson (née Marie Wilkinson), writer, and teacher
Beryl Reid, actress
Beryl Hilda Rigg (née Helliwell), mother of Diana Rigg
Beryl D. Roberts, politician
Beryl Rowland, historian and teacher
Beryl Satter, historian and teacher
Beryl Shereshewsky, American YouTuber
Beryl Smalley, historian
Beryl Smeeton, traveller
Beryl Splatt, biochemist
Beryl Swain (née J Tolman), road racer
Beryl Te Wiata (née McMillan), actor, author, and scriptwriter
Beryl Tsang, fibre artist
Beryl Vertue, television producer
Beryl Wallace (born Beatrice Heischuber), singer, dancer, and actress
Beryl Wamira, athlete
Beryl Williams, politician and school teacher

Males

Males named Beryl include:

Berle Adams (born Beryl Adasky), music industry executive and talent booking agent
Beryl Anthony Jr., politician
Beryl F. Carroll, politician
Beryl Clark, football player
Beryl Drummond, basketball player
Beryl Follet, football player
Beryl Newman, Medal of Honor recipient
Beryl Richmond, baseball player
Barney Ross (born Dov-Ber "Beryl" David Rosofsky), boxer
Beryl Rubinstein, composer
Beryl Cyril Sheldon Jr., known professionally as Jack Sheldon, musician, singer, comedian, actor
Beryl Shipley, basketball coach
Beryl Sprinkel, member of the Executive Office of the U.S. President

Pseudonym

Stephen King (as Beryl Evans)

Fictional characters

Beryl, in Beryl and the Croucher
Beryl, played by Toni Collette, an emu character in Australian CGI animated film Blinky Bill the Movie
"Beryl" Beryllinthranox, in Dragonlance
Beryl, played by Carol White, in A Matter of WHO
Beryl, played by Alexandra Dane, in Not on Your Nellie
Queen Beryl, a villainess in the anime Sailor Moon
Beryl the Peril, British cartoon character, in The Topper and others
Beryl Abbott, played by Georgann Johnson, in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "One For The Road"
Beryl Battersby, played by Paula Wilcox, in The Lovers
Beryl Blenheim, in Chart Throb
Beryl Chugspoke, played by Georgina Hale, in Emmerdale
Beryl Crabtree, played by Patricia Garwood, in No Place Like Home
Beryl Crossthwaite, played by Joan Scott, in Emmerdale
Aunt Beryl Fairfield, in Prelude
Beryl Grace, Jason Grace's mother in Rick Riordan's The Heroes of Olympus
Beryl Hennessey, played by Polly James in The Liver Birds
Beryl Humphries, played by Carmel McSharry, in Beryl's Lot
Beryl Hutchinson, the third and most recent DC Comics superhero known as Squire
Beryl Stratton Madison, in Body of Evidence
Beryl Matt, in A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove
Beryl Merit, played by Rosalind Knight, in Gimme Gimme Gimme
Beryl Newsome, played by Madelaine Newton, in Inspector Morse episode "Masonic Mysteries"
Beryl Patmore, played by Lesley Nicol, the cook on the ITV series Downton Abbey
Beryl Hayden Peacock (also Elliott), played by Anny Tobin, in Coronation Street
Beryl Stapleton, in The Hound of the Baskervilles
Red Beryl in Land of the Lustrous
Beryl Walters, played by Margaret Barton in the film, a character in the play Still Life and film Brief Encounter by Noël Coward
Beryl, a character created by Joanna Quinn and appearing in her short films: Girls Night Out, Body Beautiful, Dreams And Desires: Family Ties and Affairs of the Art

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