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barriere Name Meaning and History

French (Barrière): occupational name for a gatekeeper, from Old French barier, an agent derivative of barre ‘bar’ (see Barre). In the U.S. Barrière is also documented in the translated form Gates. Compare English Porter.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of barriere Families in the US in 1920
Number of barriere families
 4-6
 2-3
 1
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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