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:
Galician and Portuguese: topographic name for someone who lived in an area of clay or loamy soil, from barroso ‘clayey’, ‘loamy’ (from barro ‘loam’).
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