as a Last Name
- 110,017
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Barrett
Meaning & Origins
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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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 110,017
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Barrett per capita
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