Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish: habitational name from Bara, the name of an old manor
and parish in East Lothian.
- Polish, Czech, and Slovak
(Bára): from a reduced vernacular form of the Latin personal
name Bartolomaeus, Polish Bartłomiej, Czech
Bartoloměj (see Bartholomew),
- Hungarian: from
a short form of the personal name Barabás (see
Barabas).
- French: nickname for a quarrelsome or
deceitful person, from Old French barat ‘commerce’, ‘dealings’,
a derivative of barater ‘to barter’. Compare
Barratt.
- Aragonese: habitational name from Bara in
Uesca province, Aragon.
- Catalan (Barà): respelling of Catalan Berà in Tarragona, Catalonia
(see Bera).
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