Barbaro
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: sick, extreme (can be both positive and negative)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑɹˈbɑɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barbaro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 299K
- ITItaly≈1 in 16K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sick, extreme (can be both positive and negative)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Barbaro is read(measured from records)
Barbaro is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English51%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Barbaro in English.
- Spanish22%
sick, extreme (can be both positive and negative)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian8.8%
barbaric, barbarous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do gr. barbarós via lat. barbarus; estrangeiro, forasteiro, depois também feroz.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Barbaro in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barbaro 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Barbaro | 50 |
| US United States | 1,112 | 1 in 299K | 1.4K | Barbaro | 244 |
| BR Brazil | 1,083 | 1 in 195K | 1.1K | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 997 | 1 in 46K | 997 | — | — |
| AU Australia | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Barbaro | 89 |
| CH Switzerland | 143 | 1 in 59K | 143 | — | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 53 | 1 in 64K | 59 | — | — |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Nombres 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Barbaro is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of barbarus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-opt, barbarian
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)
- Francesco Barbarob. 1390ITItalian politician, diplomat, and humanist from Venice (1390–1454)
- Giosafat Barbarob. 1413ITdiplomat, merchant and writer of the Republic of Venice
- Niccolò Barbarob. 1420Italian physician and writer
- Ermolao Barbarob. 1453ITItalian diplomat (1453-1493)
- Daniele Barbarob. 1513ITItalian translator of, and commentator on, Vitruvius, cardinal (1513-1570)
- Marc'Antonio Barbarob. 1518ITItalian diplomat of the Republic of Venice
- Umberto Barbarob. 1902ITItalian writer (1902-1959)
- Federico Barbarob. 1913ITItalian missionary in Japan (1913-1996)
- Michael Barbarob. 1979USAmerican journalist
- Monica Barbarob. 1990USAmerican actress
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 43 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,558 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,831 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,989 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,628 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 997 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 143 | #8,279 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 53 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| 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 5
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Barbaro mean, and where does it come from?
- sick, extreme (can be both positive and negative) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Barbaro?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑɹˈbɑɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Barbaro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Barbaro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barbaro.
- How common is the name Barbaro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,112 people named Barbaro in 2010, about 1 in 299 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Barbaro?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barbaroThe 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, “Barbaro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.