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How Popular Is The Name Vara
Family name origins & meanings
- Galician, Asturian-Leonese and Spanish : habitational name from Vara (Galicia), Vara del Rey (Cuenca), or La Vara (Asturies).
- Portuguese and Spanish : from vara ‘rod’, ‘stick’, ‘yardstick’ (Late Latin vara ‘forked stick’), applied as a nickname or metonymic occupational name in any of various possible senses; it may have been given to a keeper of animals, who used a stick to urge his charges on, or to an official who was responsible for checking weights and measures or who carried a rod as a symbol of his office.