Last name origin & meaning: Hungarian (Barabás), Polish (Barabasz or
Barabaś), Czech and Slovak (Barabáš), and
Spanish (Bar(r)abás): from the New Testament personal name
Barabas (Greek Barabbas) ‘son of Aba’. This was the name
borne by the thief whose life was demanded by the crowd in Jerusalem
in preference to that of Jesus (Matthew 27:15–21). In central Europe
it was sometimes adopted as a personal name by a repentant sinner.
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