Last name origins & meanings:
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a Hebrew Biblical name meaning
‘lightning’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): acronymic surname
from a Hebrew patronymic phrase Ben Rabi Kalonymos ‘son of
rabbi Kalonymos’.
- Czech (Barák): status name for
the owner of a cottage without land, from barák ‘cottage’,
‘shanty’, ‘cabin’.
- Hungarian: habitational name from a place
called Barak, or from a pet form of one of two personal names,
Bertalan (see Bartholomew) or Barabás (see
Barabas).
- Turkish, Bosnian, and Croatian (Kordun): nickname from barak ‘shaggy-haired’.
- Croatian
(Dalmatian coast): derivative of the personal name Bare, a pet
form of Bartol (see Bartholomew) or Branimir.
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