The barrett Surname

barrett Name Meaning and History

It may be from a medieval personal name, but if so the form is unclear.
Alternatively, it may be a nickname for a quarrelsome or deceitful person, from Middle English bar(r)et(t)e, bar(r)at ‘trouble’, ‘strife’, ‘deception’, ‘cheating’ (Old French barat ‘commerce’, ‘dealings’, a derivative of barater ‘to haggle’). It is possible that the original sense of barat survived unrecorded into Middle English as a word for a market trader; the Italian cognate Baratta has this sense. It could also be a nickname or metonymic occupational name from Old French barette ‘cap’, ‘bonnet’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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The barrett name in History

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Distribution of barrett Families in the US in 1920

Number of barrett families

824-1646

275-823

1-274

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Thread	Author	Replies
Linda Barrett Brower	parino1	0
BARRETT Elzie J 1922 1990 Dalton and Son FH	t42swisher_dencotx	0
BARRETT C F Jr 1929 1988 Beloved husband and father	t42swisher_dencotx	0
Barrett - Tasmania Australia - Middlesex - Suffolk born abt 1811-1813	Tan104	2
BARRETT Leola Vera HILL 1920 2003 Beloved daughter, mother and sister	t42swisher_dencotx	0
Barretts of Bethnal Green, London	kerryprentice_1	19
Lawrence Barrett	averaworker	0
Ruben Barrett of Spartenburg Co. SC	vnewkirk1453	6
Frederick & Clara BARRETT parents of Dorothy Margaret BARRETT	VFredenrich1332	2
Barrett Bible, Marion, Co., OH	Ronald Craig	1

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