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Any ideas as to the meaning of the male and female medieval names Berengar and Berengaria? The name has survived as the surname Berenger (as in Tom Berenger).

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There were Berengars as king of Italy ca. 900 and as a French theologian in the 1100s(?). Berengaria was the daughter of King Sancho of Navarre (Spain) in the late 1100s and married Richard I (Coeur du Lion).

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I've also seen the male version as variants Berengarius and Berengario, but nearly everything was Latinized at some point back then. Doesn't mean it has Roman origins.

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Thankee...