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barefoot Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for someone who was in the habit of going about his business unshod, from Old English bær ‘bare’, ‘naked’ + fot ‘foot’. It may have referred to a peasant unable to afford even the simplest type of footwear, or to someone who went barefoot as a religious penance.
  2. In some instances, probably a translation of German Barfuss, the northern form Barfoth, or the Danish cognate Barfo(e)d.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of barefoot Families in the US in 1920
Number of barefoot families
 77-152
 26-76		 1-25
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Threads: 129 - Messages: 414
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James Barefoot, IRE>PA, USA Rebecca Pittman 11
Barefoot's from PA Cindie 26
Barefoot/Wentworth StephenWalker64 11
George Washington Barefoot tsb8477 6
African American Barefoots, NC AliceFerguson42 3
Noah Barefoot Bree 5
George Washington Barefoot foots701 9
Barefoot, Colston ,Meadow Community, Johnston Co NC msouthma 0
Mary Barefoot kclanin1 1
Benjamin Barefoot (b ca 1764 d ca 1809) PA Sharon Sheldon 9
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