Barkey

Barkey is a surname. Barkey is a variant spelling of the Swiss German Bürki; topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or birch grove and in some cases it may have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a stream as Birke also means ‘brook' or ‘stream’. Barkey may refer to: Denver Barkey, Canadian ice hockey player Herman Barkey, American engineer Karen Barkey, American sociology professor Ursel Barkey, German figure skater