Barre
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Barre is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 151K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.3K
- NONorway1 in 23K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
13,499 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barre 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.
13,499 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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; INEC — civil registry names; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Apellidos 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)
Barre 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 fro, bar (solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, indefinite dative/ablative singular of barrë
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a bar or ingot (of precious metal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative singular of barrus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of barrar:
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)
- William Vincent Barréb. 1760FRlinguist, historian and translator
- Jean-Jacques Barreb. 1793FRFrench artist (1793-1855)
- Jean-Auguste Barreb. 1811FRFrench artist (1811–1896)
- Albert Désiré Barreb. 1818FRFrench artist and engraver (1818-1878)
- Siad Barreb. 1919SOHead of State of Somalia (1919–1995)
- Raymond Barreb. 1924FR85th Prime Minister of France (1924-2007)
- Barre Phillipsb. 1934USAmerican bassist (1934–2024)
- Martin Barreb. 1946GBBritish guitarist
- Gabriel Barreb. 1957USAmerican director and actor
- Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barreb. 1975DEGerman screenwriter, journalist and author
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 13K | #318 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 13K | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4.3K | #726 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,727 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,094 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.9K | #3,225 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,809 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 435 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 256 | #3,396 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 242 | #6,483 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 214 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 74 | #16,145 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Barre mean, and where does it come from?
- A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Barre have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Barre, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Barre most common?
- Barre is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Barre?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 13,499 people named Barre in 2024, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barreThe 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, “Barre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.