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The barbera Surname

barbera Name Meaning and History

  1. Southern Italian: derogatory nickname from barbera ‘barber’s wife’, a term also used to denote a prostitute or dishonest woman.
  2. Catalan (Barberà): habitational name from a place in Tarragona province, named with Late Latin Barbarianum ‘place of Barbarius’, a derivative of Barbarus (see Barbaro).

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Distribution of barbera Families in the US in 1920
Number of barbera families
 43-83
 15-42
 1-14
 0
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