Last name origins & meanings:
- Italian: from the ancient Germanic personal name
Barna.
- Italian: possibly from a short form of the personal
name Barnaba (see Barnaby 1).
- Hungarian: from a
short form of the personal name Barnabás (see Barnaby
1).
- Polish (also Slovak and Ukrainian): from a derivative of
the personal name Biernat, Polish form of German
Bernhard.
- Possibly from Polish dialect barna,
brona ‘harrow’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a peasant
who used a harrow.
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