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barbary Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from a pet form of the female personal name Barbara (see Barbara).
  2. Southern French: from a diminutive of Occitan barbari ‘barbarous’, ‘barbarian’. In particular, this word came to denote a Moor or Berber from the Barbary Coast in North Africa, and hence was then applied to a man of swarthy appearance or uncouth habits.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of barbary Families in the US in 1920
Number of barbary families
 6-10
 3-5		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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