Last name origins & meanings:
- Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, and southern French: nickname for a man noted for his beard, from barba ‘beard’
(Latin barba).
- Italian: from a byname from a southern
dialect word meaning ‘uncle’ (from Latin barba ‘beard’ via
Lombardic barba, barbane), as characterizing a man of
wisdom and authority.
- Greek: see Barbas.
- Slovenian: unexplained. This name comes from the Brkini region in
southwestern Slovenia.
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