Bârbâ

surname · Latin script

Bârbâ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 65th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 30K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 3.5K
  • ECEcuador1 in 3.5K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

14,325 people

Sources
342 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Barba in US United States, ES Spain, HM Heard & McDonald Islands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Slovenian

m (jadranska zona, napose Kvarner, Istra, Hrv. primorje, Rab, Hvar, Božava) »stric«

Sources 4

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Nordic Names
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bârbâ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Bârbâ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—14,3251 in 3.5K14KBarba83
US United States—11,0431 in 30K11KBarba342
EC Ecuador—4,8331 in 3.5K4.8K—24
AR Argentina—1,8511 in 25K1.9K—2
CH Switzerland—1351 in 62K135—10
UY Uruguay—1201 in 28K120—1
HM Heard & McDonald Islands#65———Barba1

14,325 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bârbâ is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Spain, United States, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Barba, Barbaš, Barbá, Barbas, Bärbä

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bârbâ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Bârbâ have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Bârbâ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barba.
Where is Bârbâ most common?
Bârbâ is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Bârbâ?
In Spain, the national register counted 14,325 people named Bârbâ, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
How common is Bârbâ compared with other names?
In Heard & McDonald Islands, Bârbâ is the 65th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bârbâ” — the 65th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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