Barraclough
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Barrowclough, Yorkshire, ‘ravine with groves of trees’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbæɹəkɫaʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barraclough is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 406K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.1M
- SESweden1 in 1.1M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 406K (inferred from the name graph)
820 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
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)
Person from Barrowclough, Yorkshire, ‘ravine with groves of trees’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barraclough 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.
820 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Barraclough 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 English, from an unidentified place, probably near Wakefield, West Yorkshire; first attested Peter del Baridoughe, de Barneclogh 1315, 1316 Wak (Y)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, from Barrowclough near Halifax in W Yorks., so called from OE beam grove (see Barrow 1) + cloh ravine (see Clough). Vars: Barrowclough; Barrowcliff(e) (Notts.); Barnaclough, Berecloth, Berrycloth.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Henry Barracloughb. 1874AUAustralian mechanical engineer
- Geoffrey Barracloughb. 1908GBBritish historian (1904–1984)
- Solon Lovett Barracloughb. 1922USborn:1922-08-17, died:2002-12-19
- Fabio Barracloughb. 1923GBAnglo-Spanish academic (1923–2019)
- Roy Barracloughb. 1935GBBritish actor
- Ruth Mary Blackithb. 1936GBnot in their usual nameIrish entomologist (1936–2022)
- Kyle Barracloughb. 1990USAmerican baseball player
- Elizabeth BarracloughUSmusician
- Timothy BarracloughGBzoologist
- Rosemary BarracloughNZNew Zealand ecologist
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 852 | #29,518 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 820 | #28,967 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 707 | #31,053 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 40 | #52,474 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 40 | #51,690 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #41,092 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #69,698 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #250,461 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #78,058 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #307,513 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Barraclough mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Barrowclough, Yorkshire, ‘ravine with groves of trees’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Barraclough?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbæɹəkɫaʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Barraclough have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 820 people named Barraclough, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barraclough.
- Where is Barraclough most common?
- Barraclough is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 406 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Barraclough?
- In the United States, the national register counted 820 people named Barraclough in 2010, about 1 in 406 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barracloughThe 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, “Barraclough”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.