Bark Family History

English: perhaps a variant of Bargh, a habitational name from Barugh in Yorkshire, Barff Hill in East Yorkshire, or Barugh in North Yorkshire (all named with Old English beorh ‘hill’); or a topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) hill’ (from Middle English bergh, Old English beorh).

North German and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood from berke ‘birch’, or alternatively for someone who lived on a mountain (see Barg). Compare Berk.

Dutch: possibly from a pet form of the personal name Barnhard (see Bernhard). Compare Berk.

Polish: nickname from bark ‘shoulder’.