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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Barragán) : nickname for a strong or brave man, from Spanish barragán ‘young man’, ‘warrior’.
  • Spanish (Barragán) : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of fustian, a kind of material, Spanish barragán (from Arabic barrakân).

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