The barco Surname
barco Name Meaning and History
- Spanish: variant of Barca 1, from an earlier form.
- Spanish and Galician: habitational name from any of various places called (El or O) Barco, in particular Barco de Ávila (Ávila, Castile) and O Barco (Ourense, Galicia). These are of uncertain origin, possibly from the Celtic element bar- ‘height’, ‘eminence’.
- Spanish and Portuguese: metonymic occupational name for a boatman, from Spanish, Portuguese barco ‘boat’.
- Italian (especially Piemonte, Lombardy, and Veneto): from barco, which meant ‘boat’ (possibly derived from Spanish) and also ‘garden’, ‘park’, ‘farmyard’, ‘cowshed’, hence a metonymic occupational name for either a boatman or a boatbuilder, or for a park keeper or farmer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| GARDO (LAST NAME) FROM MALAGAR, SPAIN |
 kathi554
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| ALLEN, BARCO, JONES, LAVENDER |
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| Barco's from Florida | Polly Barco | 5 |
| maiden name was barco | dodee | 7 |
| Barco's out of Philadelphia |
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| BARCONS |
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| christopher beck/ florida barco | william moore | 7 |
| barcock surname |
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