Last name origins & meanings:
- Spanish and Italian: from barca ‘boat’, ‘small boat’
(Latin barca), hence a metonymic occupational name for a
sailor, a shipbuilder, or the owner of a boat.
- Spanish
and Portuguese: habitational name from any of various places named
with this word, which is probably of pre-Roman origin.
- Hungarian: habitational name from a place called Barca in Borsod
county. In some cases the family name could be a derivative of the
personal name Bertalan, Hungarian form of Bartholomew.
- Romanian: from barca ‘curly fleeced sheep’, hence
probably a metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, or a nickname
for someone with curly hair.
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