Last name origins & meanings:
- Portuguese or Spanish: habitational name from any of several
places called Barros, named with barro ‘loam’, ‘clay’.
- Hungarian: from a pet form of the personal names
Barnabás (see Barnaby) or Bertalan (see
Bartholomew).
- Czech and Slovak (Baroš): from a pet form of the personal name Bartoloměj (see
Bartholomew).
- Polish: from a pet form of a personal
name beginning with Bar- (Bartłomiej,
Bartołt, or Barnaba).
- Greek: nickname from
Albanian mbarë ‘happy’, ‘lucky’.
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