Last name origins & meanings:
- Northern Italian (Piedmont): variant of Barberi. This is
one of a class of surnames typified by the genitive plural suffix
-is imparting the sense ‘belonging to’, ‘of’, in this case ‘the
barber’s (or surgeon’s) family’.
- Greek: occupational
name from barberis ‘barber’, from Italian barbiere (see
1), or a shortened form of a patronymic derived from this, such as
Barberopoulos.
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