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Barber Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a barber, Anglo-Norman French
barber, Old French barbier, from Late Latin
barbarius, a derivative of barba ‘beard’. In the Middle
Ages barbers not only cut hair and shaved beards, but also practised
surgery and pulled teeth.Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational
name from German Barbier ‘barber’.Catalan:
occupational name for a barber, barber (see 1).Americanized form of any of numerous cognates of 1 in different
languages, for example Spanish Barbero, Portuguese
Barbeiro, French Barbier, Italian Barbieri.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Barber Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Barber families
 646 - 1,289  216 - 645 |
 1 - 215  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Barber families
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1,250 - 2,497 417 - 1,249 |
1 - 416 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barber families
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50 - 97 17 - 49 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Barber Family Origin
Barber Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Barber
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Barber Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Barber census records
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