Last name origins & meanings:
- Southern Italian: probably a topographic name from Sicilian
bharra ‘bar’, ‘barrier’ or a habitational name from a place
named with this word.
- Galician: habitational name from
places named Barra, in the provinces of Lugo and Ourense.
- Southern French: dialect variant of Barre.
- Hungarian: from the personal name Barna, short form of
Barnabás, Hungarian equivalent of Barnaby.
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