Barba
surname · Latin script
Meaning: beard
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/barba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 3.5K
- ECEcuador1 in 3.5K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 297 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
14,325 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
beard
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #278 | 14,325 | 1 in 3.5K | 14K | Barba | 158 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Barba | 38 |
| US United States | — | 11,043 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Barba | 297 |
| BO Bolivia | #107 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Barba | 43 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Barba | 110 |
| EC Ecuador | #698 | 4,833 | 1 in 3.5K | 4.8K | Barba | 53 |
| PA Panama | #146 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 16 | Barba | 38 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; the xinhua-italian-manual register; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Barba is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do lat. barba; por vezes significa tio ou ancião respeitado.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative singular of barbă
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of barber
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In scn, alternative form of varva
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, of or related to beards
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eugenio Barbab. 1936ITItalian theatre director
- Norberto Barbab. 1963USAmerican television director
- Vana Barbab. 1966GRGreek actress
- Arturo Barbab. 1973MXMexican actor
- Andrés Barbab. 1975ESSpanish writer, translator and photographer
- Silvia Navarrob. 1978MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress
- Antonella Barbab. 1986USAmerican musician
- Osmar Ibáñezb. 1988ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Federico Barbab. 1993ITItalian footballer
- Martín Barbab. 1993MXMexican actor and model
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)
Attested in 51 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 14K | #379 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14K | #379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,311 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.1K | #3,593 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 4.8K | #793 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 28 | — |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 16 | #204 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #285 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Barba mean, and where does it come from?
- beard Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Barba?
- A machine transcription gives /barba/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Barba?
- In the etymology graph, Barber is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Barba have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Barba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barba.
- How common is the name Barba?
- In Spain, the national register counted 14,325 people named Barba, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Barba compared with other names?
- In Spain, Barba is the 278th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barbaThe 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, “Barba” — the 278th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.