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Barno Italian, Ukrainian, French, Ancient Aramaic, RussianThe surname Barno was first found in the north of Italy, especially in Tuscany. The name occasionally appears in the south, usually in forms which end in "o," but the northern forms ending in "i" are much more common... [
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Baron English, FrenchFrom a title of nobility derived from Old French
baron of uncertain origin and meaning, possibly from Frankish
barō meaning "servant, man, warrior". It was used as a nickname for someone who worked for a baron or for a peasant with ideas above their station.
Baron JewishFrom German or Polish
baron or Russian барон
(baron) meaning "baron". In Israel the name is often interpreted to mean "son of strength" from Hebrew בר און
(bar on).
Barr Scottish, Northern IrishHabitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic
barr "height, hill" or a British cognate of this.
Barraco ItalianMeaning uncertain, possibly from Arabic
بَرَّاق (
barraq) "shining, lustrous".
Barreau FrenchPossibly a variant of
Barreur, an agent derivative of barrer ‘to bar’, ‘to close or block off’, hence possibly an occupational name for a jailer or doorkeeper.
Barreiro Galician, PortugueseBarreiro is a habitational name from any of numerous places in Galicia (Spain) and Portugal named with a derivative of
barro 'clay loam'.
Barreiros Portuguese, GalicianHabitational name from any of various places in Galicia called Barreiros, from Portuguese and Galician
barreiro meaning "slough, clay".
Barrenetxe BasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Larrabetzu.
Barrera Spanish, CatalanEither a topographic name for someone who lived near a gate or fence, from Spanish and Catalan
barrera meaning "barrier", or a topographic name for someone who lived by a clay pit, from Spanish
barrero, derived from the Spanish word
barro meaning "mud, clay".
Barrese Italian, SicilianDenoted a person from any of the various minor places named
Barra in southern Italy (for example the large district in the eastern part of Naples), derived from Italian
barra meaning "barrier, bar, obstacle".
Barreto PortugueseOccupational name for a cap maker. Comes from
barreto which means ‘cap’.
Barrientos SpanishHabitational name from a place in León named Barrientos, possibly derived from an Asturleonese word meaning "loamy".
Barriere FrenchOccupational name for a gatekeeper, from Old French
barier.
Barrineau FrenchThe history of the Barrineau family goes back to the Medieval landscape of northern France, to that coastal region known as Normandy. Barrineau is a habitation name, derived from the place name Barrault, in Normandy.... [
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Barrington English, IrishEnglish: habitational name from any of several places called Barrington. The one in Gloucestershire is named with the Old English personal name
Beorn + -ing- denoting association + tun ‘settlement’... [
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Barrios SpanishHabitational name from any of the numerous places named with Spanish
barrio "outlying suburb (especially an impoverished one), slum", from Arabic
barr "suburb, dependent village". It may also be a topographic name for someone originating from a barrio.
Barroeta BasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Bedia.
Barrow EnglishHabitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English
bearo,
bearu "grove" or from Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, which is named with an unattested Celtic word,
barr, here meaning "promontory", and Old Norse
ey "island"... [
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Barrowman EnglishA man employed in wheeling a barrow; specifically, in coal-mining, one who conveys the coal in a wheelbarrow from the point where it is mined to the trolleyway or tramway on which it is carried to the place where it is raised to the surface.
Barrundia BasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.
Barry AfricanA Guinean surname meaning the family comes from the Peul, Fulani, or Foulbe ethnic groups of West Africa.
Barsby EnglishDerived from the Old Norse word
barn, which occured as a byname and meant "child", and Old Norse
býr "farm, settlement"
Barsi HungarianName for someone living in a village named Bars. This was the surname of American child actress Judith Barsi (June 6, 1978 - July 25, 1988).
Barskiy UkrainianMeans "of Bar", referring to the city of Bar in the Vínnitsya Oblast.
Bartek Polish, Czech, Slovak, GermanPolish, Czech, Slovak, and eastern German: from a pet form of a vernacular form of the personal name Bartolomaeus (Czech Bartoloměj, Polish Bartłomiej, German Bartolomäus)
Bartholomew EnglishFrom a medieval personal name, Latin
Bart(h)olomaeus, from the Aramaic patronymic
bar-Talmay "son of Talmay", meaning "having many furrows", i.e. rich in land. This was an extremely popular personal name in Christian Europe, with innumerable vernacular derivatives... [
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Barthorpe EnglishThis surname originates from the village of the same name in the East Riding of Yorkshire, likely combining the Old Norse personal name
Bǫrkr with Old Norse
þorp meaning "village."
Bartley English, American1. English: habitational name from Bartley in Hampshire, or from Bartley Green in the West Midlands, both of which are named with Old English be(o)rc ‘birch’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’; compare
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Bartman EnglishLast name Bartman is very rare but I believe it’s a English last name .Possibly variant of the last name BAUMAN
Bartolotta ItalianBartolotta was the name taken by the followers of Saint Bartholomew. Bartholomew was one of the 12 apostles of Jesus. He is credited as bringing Christianity to Armenia in the 1st century.
Barua Indian, AssameseFrom a military title historically used in Assam, derived from an Ahom word meaning "ten thousand" (referring to the number of soldiers under the command of such an officer).
Barua BengaliFrom the name of the Barua people of Bangladesh and Myanmar, perhaps meaning "great noble rulers" or of Assamese origin.
Barwick English, GermanEnglish: habitational name from any of various places called Barwick, for example in Norfolk, Somerset, and West Yorkshire, from Old English
bere ‘barley’ +
wic ‘outlying farm’, i.e. a granary lying some distance away from the main village.... [
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Barzagli ItalianProbably from
barezzo, an old word of Germanic origin used to denote people who bred pigs or sold ham.
Barzanî KurdishDenoted a person from the village of
Barzan in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Barzilaij Dutch, JewishDutch form (or "dutchization", if you will) of
Barzilai via
Barzilay. This name is found exclusively in the Dutch-Jewish community, and is considered quite rare: there were only 112 bearers in 1947 and only 51 bearers in 2007.
Baş TurkishMeans "head, top" or "leader" in Turkish.
Basarrate BasqueIt indicates familial origin within the eponymous area of the district of Santutxu in the city of Bilbao.
Basciani ItalianThe surname Basciani derives from a nickname probably given to the family of origin (from the Latin "Bassus"), for the probable short stature of some components, although the derivation from the Campania family "Bassus" is not excluded.
Bascöurt FrenchThe Bascourt or Bascur surname is from France, from that place dates the beginning of the surname, however the French of previous centuries had no records of that surname. ... [
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Basel GermanHabitational name denoting someone from the city of Basel, Switzerland.
Basiński PolishHabitational name for someone from a place called Basin.
Basisty RussianDerived from Russian басистый
(basisty) meaning "having bass, deep voice".
Baskerville EnglishMeans "bush town", from Anglo-Norman French boschet (a little bush) and ville (town).
Baskin JewishMeans "son of
Baske", a Yiddish female personal name (a pet-form of the Biblical name
Bath Seba). Baskin-Robbins is a US chain of ice-cream parlours founded in Glendale, California in 1945 by Burt Baskin (1913-1969) and Irv Robbins (1917-2008).
Basler GermanHabitational name denoting someone from the city of Basel, Switzerland.
Başoğlu TurkishMeans "son of the leader" from Turkish
baş meaning "leader, head".
Bassett EnglishFrom Old French
bas meaning "short", low". It was either used as a nickname for a short person or someone of humble origins.
Bassford EnglishHabitational name from any of several places called Basford, especially the one in Nottinghamshire. There are others in Staffordshire and Cheshire. Either that or it's from Old English
berc "birch tree" + Old English
ford "ford".
Bastiat FrenchMeaning of this name is unknown. Possibly derived from
Sebastian The surname Bastiat was first found in Poitou, where this family held a family seat since ancient times.
Bastidas SpanishPossibly related to the French word "bastide", referring to fortified towns built in Southern France in the Middle Ages.... [
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Basumatary Indian, BodoFrom Sanskrit वसुमती
(Vasumati), another name for the Hindu goddess
Bhumi. She is believed to be the mythical mother of the Bodo people.
Baszowski PolishThis indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish village of Baszowice.
Bataille Frenchnickname for a bellicose man from
bataille "battle" (from Latin
battualia) or a habitational name from (La) Bataille the name of several places in France all named as the site of a battle in former times.
Batawi Indonesian, ArabicMeans "Betawi" in Arabic, referring to an ethnic group native to the city of Jakarta in Indonesia. The name itself is from
Batavia, the capital city of the Dutch East Indies (located in present-day Jakarta)... [
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Batchelor English, ScottishOccupational name for an unmarried man, a young knight or a novice, derived from Middle English and Old French
bacheler literally meaning "bachelor", ultimately from medieval Latin
baccalarius.
Batey English (?)Originates from mostly northern England. Is the presumed given name to fishers. (With it meaning "Small fishing boat" in old English.)
Bathgate Scottish, EnglishFrom the town of Bathgate, west of Edinburgh, Scotland. The town's name derives from Cumbric
*beith, meaning 'boar' (Welsh
baedd) and
*gaith. meaning 'wood' (Welsh
coed).
Batistuta ItalianPossibly from a diminutive of the given name
Battista. A famous bearer is the former Argentinian soccer player Gabriel Batistuta (1969-).
Batlokwa Tswana, Southern Africana branch of the Bakgatla section of the Bantu speaking communities which originated from the Great Lakes and Northern Central Africa. Batlokwa are said to have been a breakaway branch of the Bakgatla which is another Bahurutse section of the Tswana people.
Batmaz TurkishMeans "unsinkable, buoyant" or "cheerful, carefree" in Turkish.
Batres SpanishThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.
Batt EnglishThis is patronymic form of the medieval personal name "Batte", meaning "son of Batte", ... [
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Batta IndianHindu name of unknown meaning, based on the name of a subgroup among the Tank goldsmiths of Panjab.
Battersby EnglishDerives from the place of Battersby in North Yorkshire, which is composed of Old Norse personal name
Bǫðvarr and the Old Norse suffix
býr "farm, settlement"... [
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Battiloro ItalianMeans "goldworker", specifically an artisan who applied gold foil to other material, from Italian
batti "to beat, to strike" and
'l oro "the gold".
Battistella ItalianFrom St. John the Baptist, the first bearers of this name were devoted to this saint. Another etymology would be a patronymic from the given name
Battista, anyway linked to the aforementioned saint.
Batungbakal FilipinoTagalog Filipino surname meaning "iron stone", from Tagalog
bato "stone" combined with
bakal "iron, steel".
Batz Upper GermanDerived from Alemannic Swabian
Batz "pile; large quantity", possibly applied as a nickname either for a man of large physical proportions or for a man of wealth. The term also denoted a coin and may have been used metonymically for a coiner... [
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Baucom EnglishVariant spelling of
BALCOMBE, a habitational name from West Sussex derived from Old English
bealu "evil" and
cumb "valley".
Baudelaire FrenchA French surname, coming from the word "baudelaire", which is a short, broad, and curved sword used in heraldry.
Baudric French (Rare)Derived from the medieval French given name
Baudric, which was a variant form of
Baldéric, the French form of
Baldric.
Baudry FrenchDerived from the medieval French given name
Baudry, which was a variant form of
Baudric, a given name that itself was a variant form of
Baldéric (see
Baldric)... [
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Bauerdick GermanA surname originating from the Rhineland region of Germany. It is derived from German
Bauer (
Bur in the locals dialects) "farmer" and
Deich (
Diek and
Dick in the local dialects) "levee" or
Teich "pond"... [
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Bauersack GermanSemi-Germanized form of the Polish surname
Burczak, originally derived from Polish
burczec "growl; shout".... [
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Baumeister GermanOccupational name for a "builder" in German; from Middle High German 'buwen' 'to build' + meister 'master'.... [
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Baumfree Dutch, American, African AmericanThis name is clearly derived from Sojourner Truth, a former African-American slave who was born as Isabella Bomefree (but at some point the surname was changed to the more German-looking Baumfree). Although Sojourner's original owners - James and Elizabeth Bomefree/Baumfree - were apparently of Dutch descent, it is questionable whether the surname is really of Dutch origin... [
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