Barrias
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/barjas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barrias is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 102K(measured from records)
- PAPanama≈1 in 26K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 78K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
446 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Barrias 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 446 | 1 in 102K | 446 | Barrias | 28 |
| BR Brazil | — | 289 | 1 in 733K | 289 | Barrias | 30 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 570K | — | Barrias | 13 |
| PA Panama | #762 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1 | Barrias | 14 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Barrias | 16 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Barrias | 24 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 65 | 1 in 78K | 65 | Barrias | 3 |
446 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Barrias is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, second-person singular present active subjunctive of barriō
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)- Félix-Joseph Barriasb. 1822FRpainter from France (1822-1907)
- Louis-Ernest Barriasb. 1841FRFrench sculptor (1841-1905)
- Cristina BarriasPTresearcher
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 446 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 289 | #27,260 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 65 | #1,883 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Barrias?
- A machine transcription gives /barjas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Barrias have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 446 people named Barrias, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barrias.
- How common is the name Barrias?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 446 people named Barrias, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
- How common is Barrias compared with other names?
- In Panama, Barrias is the 762nd most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barriasThe 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, “Barrias” — the 762nd most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.