Barrett Family History
- Barrett Name Meaning
- 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’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 5,062,630 Historical Documents with Barrett on Ancestry
- 1,471,101 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,017,422 Census and Voter Lists
- 150,850 Military Records
- 136,743 Immigration Records
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Number of Barrett families
 824 - 1,646  275 - 823 |
 1 - 274  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Barrett families
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2,184 - 4,365 729 - 2,183 |
1 - 728 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barrett families
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74 - 146 25 - 73 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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