Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : from the imperial Roman personal name Barbarus (for the etymology see Barbara 1).
- Italian : from Barbaro, a byname or nickname also originally denoting a person of non-Greek or Roman origin, which in the Middle Ages came to mean a non-Christian, specifically an Arab or Saracen. Compare Barbary.
- Italian : from barbarus, from Castilian bravo ‘fierce’, ‘brave’.