Last name origins & meanings:
- Czech and Slovak (Bareš): from a pet form of the personal name
Bartoloměj (see Bartholomew).
- German: probably from a Germanic personal name based on bero ‘bear’
- English: unexplained; perhaps a variant of Barrs
or Barras.
- Galician: habitational name from Bares in A
Coruña province.
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