Barcia Family History
Barcia Name Meaning
Galician: habitational name from any of numerous places so named in Galicia and in Galician-speaking western Asturias meaning ‘cultivated land close to a river’. Italian (Sicily): of Albanian origin (see Barci ). This surname is found in the ancient Albanian-speaking community of Piana degli Albanesi Sicily where the Albanian Christian refugees from the Turkish occupation of the Balkans settled in the 15th century.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022