Barbes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular present subjunctive of barbar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑɹbz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barbes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 944K(measured from records)
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 944K (inferred from the name graph)
53 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular present subjunctive of barbar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barbes 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 | 53 | 1 in 944K | 53 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | — | 109 | Barbes | 87 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Barbes | 7 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Barbes | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | — | — | Barbes | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | — | — | Barbes | 1 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | — | — | Barbes | 2 |
53 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Barbes is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, second-person singular present indicative of barbar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, plural of barba
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Karpu dzimtas zivis gk. tropu jūrās un saldūdeņos, arī akvārijos
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 109 | #140,756 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 53 | #42,835 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 53 | #42,563 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Barbes mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present subjunctive of barbar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Barbes?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑɹbz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Barbes have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 53 people named Barbes, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Barbes most common?
- Barbes is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 944 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Barbes?
- In Spain, the national register counted 53 people named Barbes, about 1 in 944 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barbesThe 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, “Barbes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.