Given name & surname

Barberis

“barber”

Barberis is a surname from Greek. It is used in Romanian.

Original GreekΜπαρμπέρης

Meaning & origin

What it means

Barberis goes back to a word meaning “barber.”

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Where it comes from

Barberis comes from Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Greek Μπαρμπέρης.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Barberis’s family of names

In Romanian usage, Barberis as a surname was borrowed from the Greek form Μπαρμπέρης.

Walk Barberis’s family in the name graph

BarberisΜπαρμπέρης

The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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