as a Last Name
- 50,065
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Barr
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 688th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 50,065
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Barr per capita
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