Meaning & origin
What it means
Barbaro goes back to Latin barbarus, meaning “foreign.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Barbaro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1986. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 664 as a first name in 2020; 1,381 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Barbaro’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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