Last 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’.
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