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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Spanish barrio ‘outlying suburb’ (especially an impoverished one), ‘slum’, from Arabic barr ‘suburb’, ‘dependent village’. It may also be a topographic name for someone originating from a barrio.

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