Bârcă

surname · Latin script

Bârcă is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Anglicization of Catalan Barça.

  • DZAlgeria
  • PTPortugal
  • GBUnited Kingdom

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
215 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Barca in ES Spain, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 1 more and Bàrçà in DZ Algeria.

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)

Anglicization of Catalan Barça.

Cited for this meaning 4

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

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

Where Bârcă is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—838Barca215
ES Spain—1.2KBarca27
GB United Kingdom——Barca61
PT Portugal——Barca1
DZ Algeria——Bàrçà7
BR Brazil—1.2K—2
AR Argentina—871—1
UY Uruguay—505——

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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
188018901900Vasile Bârcă, b. 1884Mihail Bârcă, b. 1888Teodor Bârcă, b. 1894Teodosie Bârcă, b. 1894

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bârcă mean, and where does it come from?
Anglicization of Catalan Barça. Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
In which country does Bârcă have the most bearers?
Bârcă is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled barca.

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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, “Bârcă”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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