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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Albarrán) : nickname or occupational name from medieval Spanish albarrán ‘foreigner’, ‘alien’, also ‘chief herdsman or shepherd’ (from Arabic al- ‘the’ + barrāni ‘outside’, from barra ‘out’ or barr ‘land’, ‘open country’).

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