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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Beard

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : occupational name from Old French barbeor ‘barber’. Compare the English form Barber.
  • George Barbour sailed from England on the Transport in 1635. He became a freeman of Dedham, MA, in 1647 and settled eventually at Medfield.

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