Barfoot
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Barfoot is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Barefoot.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 79K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 120Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 130Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishbarefote(inferred from the name graph)via BareFoot
- Old Englishbærfōt“barefoot”(inferred from the name graph)via BareFoot
- Proto-Germanic*bazafōts“barefoot”(inferred from the name graph)via BareFoot
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Barefoot.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Barfoot is found
(measured from records)Barfoot 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Barfoot | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 79K | listed | Barfoot | 127 |
| US United States | 710 | 1 in 469K | 710 | Barfoot | 198 |
| CA Canada | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Barfoot | 64 |
| AU Australia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Barfoot | 56 |
| IE Ireland | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Barfoot | 1 |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Van T. Barfootb. 1919USU.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient (1919–2012)
- Joan Barfootb. 1946CACanadian writer
- Stuart Barfootb. 1975GBEnglish footballer (born 1975)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Barfoot mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Barefoot. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Barfoot?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Barfoot in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barfoot. After it come United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Barfoot?
- In the United States, the national register counted 710 people named Barfoot in 2010, about 1 in 469 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barfootThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Barfoot”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.