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barco Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish: variant of Barca 1, from an earlier form.
  2. 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’.
  3. Spanish and Portuguese: metonymic occupational name for a boatman, from Spanish, Portuguese barco ‘boat’.
  4. 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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Distribution of barco Families in the US in 1920
Number of barco families
 12-21
 5-11		 1-4
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Barco's out of Philadelphia mrada_1 9
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BARCOs fron Currituck NC to Lower Norfolk VA Debbie 0
James Barco ~ Lynched in 1900 ~ Florida BasketLady420 0
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