as a Last Name
- 3,709
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Barbara
Meaning & Origins
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (Bárbara), and English: from the female personal name Barbara, which was borne by a popular saint, who according to legend was imprisoned in a tower and later put to death by her own father for refusing to recant her Christian beliefs. The name comes from a feminine form of Latin barbarus, Greek barbaros ‘foreign(er)’ (originally an onomatopoeic word formed in imitation of the unintelligible babbling of non-Greeks).
| 8,817th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,709
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Jersey
- has the most people named Barbara per capita
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