The Barbara Surname
Barbara Name Meaning and History
- 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).
- Catalan (Barbarà): variant of Barbera.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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