Given name & surname
Barber
“one who trims or shaves beards”
Barber is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “one who trims or shaves beards.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “one who trims or shaves beards.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Barber through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 23
- 18 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 7 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 girls is 5 in 1941. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 284 as a first name in 2020; 75,161 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.
Barber’s family of names
Barber has a conventional equivalent in the German form Barbara. Barber has a related form in Barbar. Barber has a related form in Barbir.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Barber
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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