Barbiër

surname · Latin script

Barbiër is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 250K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 5.3K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 29K

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.

Belgium (measured from records)

2,225 people, 2008

Record sources
233 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Barbier in US United States, BE Belgium, NL Netherlands.

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 Catalan

subst. 1. Barbier (Sd XXI) ; Barbilar, medic" 1747 (Pal). 2. Bdrberu (Olt). Barb/ol -os etc., v. Barba 6-8.

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Barbiër 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 Barbiër is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium2,2251 in 5.3K2.2KBarbier45
US United States1,3291 in 250K1.6KBarbier233
BR Brazil5611 in 377K561——
NL Netherlands3301 in 52K330Barbier21
CH Switzerland2921 in 29K292—21
AR Argentina2691 in 169K269——
UY Uruguay791 in 43K79——

2,225 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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

In which country does Barbiër have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Barbiër, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barbier.
Where is Barbiër most common?
Barbiër is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Barbiër?
In Belgium, the national register counted 2,225 people named Barbiër in 2008, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.

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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, “Barbiër”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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