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ByreEnglish Probably derived from Old English bȳre "farm, barn".
HelmEnglish, Dutch, German from Old English helm "protection covering" (in later northern English dialects "cattle shelter barn"). The name may be topographic for someone who lived by or worked at a barn or habitational from a place so named such as Helme in Meltham (Yorkshire)... [more]
KausGerman From a regional (Hessian) variant of the habitational name Kues, from a place on the Mosel river, probably so named from Late Latin covis "field barn", "rack" and earlier recorded as Couese, Cobesa.
KüünEstonian Küün is an Estonian surname meaning "barn".
LathamEnglish (British) Habitational name from any of the places in England named with the Old Norse word hlaða meaning "barn".
LaudrupDanish Possibly from the name of homesteads in Denmark, most likely derived from Old Norse laut meaning "barn", combined with the Danish suffix -drup (itself from Old Norse thorp) meaning "outlying farmstead, village, settlement"... [more]
PlevnelievBulgarian From the Bulgarian name for the Greek village of Petroussa (called Plevnya in Bulgarian), itself derived from Bulgarian плевня (plevnya) meaning "barn". A notable bearer is Bulgarian president Rosen Plevneliev (1964-).
ReeEstonian Ree is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "rehi" meaning "barn".
ReemetsEstonian Reemets is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "rehi" meaning "barn" and "mets" meaning "forest".
RehiEstonian Rehi is an Estonian surname meaning "threshing barn".
RiihimäkiFinnish Derived from Riihimäki, a town and municipality in southern Finland, meaning "drying barn hill" in Finnish.
ShockleyEnglish (i) perhaps "person from Shocklach", Cheshire ("boggy stream infested with evil spirits"); (ii) perhaps an anglicization of Swiss German Schoechli, literally "person who lives by the little barn"
TallEstonian Tall is an Estonian surname meaning both "lamb" and "stable/barn".