Barran
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘little top’; name of an Irish saint
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bæɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 7K
- CACanada≈1 in 291K
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.
- Uruguay (measured from records)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
481 people
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘little top’; name of an Irish saint.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barran 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | 481 | 1 in 7K | 481 | Barran | 20 |
| US United States | 316 | 1 in 1.1M | 385 | Barran | 56 |
| EG Egypt | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 561K | — | Barran | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 359K | — | Barran | 21 |
| GY Guyana | 148 | 1 in 5.1K | 148 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Barran | 8 |
| ES Spain | 116 | 1 in 431K | 116 | Barran | 35 |
481 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Barran 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 Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of barrar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, plural of bàrr
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kld, boomerang
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, se poser (sur une branche en parlant d’un essaim)
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Breton, combler
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Rowland Barranb. 1858GBBritish clothing manufacturer and politician (1858-1949)
- Alison Mary Hore-Ruthvenb. 1902GBnot in their usual nameEnglish socialite
- David Barranb. 1912GBBritish chief executive
- Robert Barranb. 1918FRFrench journalist and rugby league player (1918-1978)
- Peter Barranb. 1936Australian rules footballer
- Richard Martin Barranb. 1941GB(born 1941)
- Diana Barranb. 1959GBBritish charity campaigner, hedge fund manager, and peer
- Rowland Paull Barranb. 1974GB(born 1974)
- Perdita Barranb. 2000GBChemist
- Petra BarranGBBritish street food entrepreneur
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 481 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 385 | #57,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 316 | #63,218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 299 | #62,577 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 148 | #477 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 116 | #24,684 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 116 | #24,657 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Barran mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘little top’; name of an Irish saint. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How do you pronounce Barran?
- A machine transcription gives /bæɹən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Barran have the most bearers?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted about 481 people named Barran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barran.
- Where is Barran most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Barran is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 5.1 thousand people — even though Uruguay holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Barran?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 481 people named Barran, about 1 in 7.0 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/barranThe 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, “Barran”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.