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Baril FrenchDuring the middle ages, when people were named after their given job, Baril was what winemakers and brewers were named. Baril simply means "Barrel" or "Keg"
Barile ItalianFrom Italian
barile "barrel" either an occupational name for a Cooper or a nickname for a fat man.
Barilla ItalianOccupational name from medieval Greek
barellas "cooper" from Italian
barella "barrel" with the suffix (e)as.
Barinov RussianMeans "son of the boyar" from Russian барин
(barin) meaning "boyar, nobleman".
Bark SwedishPerhaps derived from a place name containing either Old Swedish
*barke "throat", Old Swedish
biork "birch tree" or Swedish
bark "bark (covering of the trunk of a tree)"
Barker EnglishSURNAME Town cryer, or someone who shouts out notices
Barkis EnglishMeant "person who works in a tannery" (from Middle English
barkhous "tannery" - bark was used in the tanning process). A fictional bearer is Barkis, a carrier in Charles Dickens's 'David Copperfield' (1849) who sends a message via David to Clara Peggotty that "Barkis is willin'" (i.e. to marry her).
Barkus EnglishProbably a reduced form of Barkhouse, a topographic name for someone who lived by a tannery, Middle English barkhous, or an occupational name for someone who worked in one.
Barnaby EnglishEither (i) means "person from Barnaby", Yorkshire ("Beornwald's settlement"); or (ii) from the medieval male personal name
Barnaby, the English form of
Barnabas, a biblical name ultimately from Aramaic
Barnabia "son of Nabia".
Barner EnglishSouthern English habitational name for someone who lived by a barn.
Barnewall Anglo-Norman, IrishA locational surname given to those who lived by a stream in either Cambridgeshire, which derives its name from the Olde English
beorna meaning "warrior" and
wella meaning "stream", or from one in Northamptonshire, which got its name from the Olde English
byrge meaning "burial mound" and
well, which also means "stream." a burial mound and 'well(a)'... [
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Barney EnglishHabitational name for a person from the village of Barney in Norfolk, derived from Old English
bere "barley" or a genitive form of the given name
Bera and
ieg "island".
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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Barnum English (American, Americanized, Modern)Barnum originated as an altered form of the English surname Barnham, a habitational name from places called Barnham in Suffolk and West Sussex, or Barnham Broom in Norfolk, meaning "homestead of the family or followers of a man named Beorn".
Barón Spanishnickname from the title
barón "baron" applied as a nickname or as an occupational name for a member of the household of a baron; or from an old personal name of the same origin in the sense "free man"... [
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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 Basque (Rare)From the name of a neighborhood in the municipality of Larrabetzu, Spain, derived from Basque
barren "inside, interior; deep; lower part" and
etxe "house, building".
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 Spanish, CaribbeanHabitational 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 BasqueHabitational name derived from Basque
berro "bramble, thicket, bush" and the toponymic suffix
-eta "place of, abundance of".
Barroga IlocanoFrom Ilocano
barruga meaning "to throw a piece of wood or stick", also the name of a type of game played with sticks.
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 BasqueFrom the name of a municipality in Álava, Basque Country, derived from
barruti "district, area".
Barry AfricanA Guinean surname meaning the family comes from the Peul, Fulani, or Foulbe ethnic groups of West Africa.
Barrymore English, Irish (Anglicized)Habitational name for a person from a barony in County Cork, derived from an Anglicized form of Irish
Barraigh Mhóra, derived from Irish
barr "crop, yield" and
mór "big, large, great"... [
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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)
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".
Baskakov RussianOf Turkic origin, specifically derived from the word "Baskak," which means "tax collector".
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".
Basque FrenchOriginally denoted a Basque person or someone from the Basque Country in Spain.
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".