Barac

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/barat̪s̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Barac is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bibl. ebr. fulger" ; cf. $i subst. ard. barac rasa de cline < tc. baraq cline", srb. cr. Barak ipoc. <Barth olomeu s. 1. Barac, olt., 1679 (Sd V 305) ; - N., elev (Dealu 130) ; -u/ t., munt.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 45K
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 7.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
96 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BaracLatin(measured from records)
БарацCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Baraç in TR Türkiye.

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)

bibl. ebr. fulger" ; cf. $i subst. ard. barac rasa de cline < tc. baraq cline", srb. cr. Barak ipoc. <Barth olomeu s. 1. Barac, olt., 1679 (Sd V 305) ; - N., elev (Dealu 130) ; -u/ t., munt. ; -eqti t. 2. Barac, loan, scriitor ard. ; -u, N., dobr. (RI XI 212) ; Barac/ea, -el tt. Barb, -a, -ea etc. v. Barbura II 1, 3. Barbalea v. Barbura I 4. Barb/fir, -ur v. Barbura I 3. Barberi v. Barb u r a I 3 c. Barbel v. Barbura III 4. Barb/olovici v. B a r b u r a III 21. Barb/ocea, -ovsehi v. Barbura III 7, 21. Barbon/a, -cea, -le v. B a r b u r a III 8. Barbos v. Barbura HI 9. Barbuc, -a, -in, v. B a r b u r a III 10, 12.. Barbuia, v. Barbura III 19. Barbul, -ov v. Barbura II 2, III 21.

Sources 1

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Barac 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 Barac is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India≈2,000 est.≈1 in 659K—Barac1
TR Türkiye≈1,800 est.≈1 in 45K—Baraç16
HR Croatia1,6801 in 2.5K1.7KBarac62
RO Romania≈1,100 est.≈1 in 20K—Barac12
RS Serbia≈790 est.≈1 in 8.9K—Barac33
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈490 est.≈1 in 7.8K—Barac8

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Barac is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Serbia

    Also written Barać, Barač

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Bărac, Barać

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Serbia, United Kingdom

    Also written Barać, Baraç

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, India

    Also written Baraç, Barać

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Barác, Barač, Barać, Baraç

  • Polish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Poland

    Also written Baraç, Barać, Barač

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Ioan Barac, b. 1776Fran Barac, b. 1872Barac, b. 1979Antonio Barać, b. 1997

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)

FormalPoštovani Barac,Dear Barac, (English)
InformalPoštovani Barac,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Barac
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021402#1,879
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021331—

Reference works 3

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

How do you pronounce Barac?
A machine transcription gives /barat̪s̪/ (IPA) for Croatian.
What does the name Barac mean?
Recorded meaning: bibl. ebr. fulger" ; cf. $i subst. ard. barac rasa de cline < tc. baraq cline", srb. cr. Barak ipoc. <Barth olomeu s. 1. Barac, olt., 1679 (Sd V 305) ; - N., elev (Dealu 130) ; -u/ t., munt.
In which country does Barac have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Barac in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barac.
Where is Barac most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Barac is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 2.5 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Barac?
In Croatia, the national register counted 1,680 people named Barac in 2021, about 1 in 2.5 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, “Barac”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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