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Barrett

in the US

There are 80,243 people with the last name "Barrett" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Barrett 270
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  1. is 266th most common Fields
  2. is 267th most common Lucas
  3. is 268th most common Keller
  4. is 269th most common Walsh
  5. is 270th most common Barrett
  6. is 271st most common Chen
  7. is 272nd most common Douglas
  8. is 273rd most common Beck
  9. is 274th most common Tran

Similar Names and Nicknames

Barr, Barry, Barron, Barrera, Barrow, Barrios, Barrientos, Barragan, Barrows, Barraza

Most Common First Names for Barrett

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

Meaning & History

English: of much discussed but uncertain origin.

  • 1. It may be from a medieval personal name, but if so the form is unclear.
  • 2. Alternatively, it may be a nickname for a quarrelsome or deceitful person, from Middle English bar(r)et(t)e, bar(r)at ‘trouble’, ‘strife’, ‘deception’, ‘cheating’ (Old French barat ‘commerce’, ‘dealings’, a derivative of barater ‘to haggle’).
    • It is possible that the original sense of barat survived unrecorded into Middle English as a word for a market trader; the Italian cognate Baratta has this sense. It could also be a nickname or metonymic occupational name from Old French barette ‘cap’, ‘bonnet’.

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