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Barr

in South Carolina

There are 1,229 people with the last name "Barr" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Barr 399
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  1. is 395th most common Nix
  2. is 396th most common Davidson
  3. is 397th most common Dubose
  4. is 398th most common Cain
  5. is 399th most common Barr
  6. is 400th most common Leonard
  7. is 401st most common Chambers
  8. is 402nd most common Hardy
  9. is 403rd most common Flowers

Similar Names and Nicknames

Barrett, Berry, Barry, Barron, Barrera, Barrow, Barrios, Barrientos, Burr, Barragan

Most Common First Names for Barr

James, John, Robert, William, David, Michael, Thomas, Mary, Kenneth, Charles

Meaning & History

Scottish and northern Irish: habitational 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.

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a gateway or barrier, from Middle English, Old French barre ‘bar’, ‘obstruction’.

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France called Barre. See Barre.

English: habitational name from any of various places in England called Barr, for example Great Barr in the West Midlands, named with the Celtic element barro ‘height’, ‘hill’.

English: from the vocabulary word barr ‘bar’, ‘pole’, either a metonymic occupational name for a maker of bars, or perhaps a nickname for a tall, thin man.

Irish: from Ó Bairr, Donegal form of Ó Báire (see Barry 2).

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