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Barr

in the US

There are 37,749 people with the last name "Barr" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Barr 667
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  1. is 663rd most common Shannon
  2. is 664th most common Clay
  3. is 665th most common Colon
  4. is 666th most common Blackwell
  5. is 667th most common Barr
  6. is 668th most common Hurst
  7. is 669th most common Kemp
  8. is 670th most common Kent
  9. is 671st most common Merritt

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Barr

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