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Barr

in West Virginia

There are 643 people with the last name "Barr" in West Virginia.

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Ranking in West Virginia

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Barr 394
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  1. is 390th most common Sheppard
  2. is 391st most common Painter
  3. is 392nd most common Lovejoy
  4. is 393rd most common Ash
  5. is 394th most common Barr
  6. is 395th most common Honaker
  7. is 396th most common Hodges
  8. is 397th most common Mclaughlin
  9. is 398th most common Bird

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Barr

James, Robert, John, David, Mary, Charles, Cathy, Danny, Jason, William

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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