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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Barrère) : occupational name for a gatekeeper or for someone who lived by a gate or barrier, from a derivative of Old French barre ‘bar’, ‘obstruction’ (see Barre). See also Barriere.

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