First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Spanish and Galician: widespread habitational name, especially in Galicia, from any of numerous places named with barro ‘clay’, ‘loam’, in particular Barro in Pontevedra.