Barbara

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Origin and Meaning of Barbara

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English

62%

Greek

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Hebrew

10%

Sanskrit

5%

Latin

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French

5%

Jamaican

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• A user from Michigan, United States says the name Barbara is of Greek origin and means "Exotic, stranger".
• A user from Connecticut, United States says the name Barbara is of Latin origin and means "The foreigner (originally "the bearded one", referring to uncivilized non-Romans).".
• According to a user from Netherlands, the name Barbara is of Sanskrit origin and means "Foreign, strange".

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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

noun Bar"ba*ra

The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives.

Etymology: Coined by logicians

Wiktionary

Name of a legendary saint, Latin Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Compare Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian”).

1. A female given name.

Barbara was also found in the following language(s): Danish, Faroese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, and Slovak

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  #6	Most Popular Girl Name

• How Popular is the name Barbara? Barbara is the 21^st most popular name of all time. As a last name Barbara was the 10,704^th most popular name in 2010.
• How many people with the first name Barbara have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2017, the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,438,196 babies born with the first name Barbara in the United States. That's more than enough people named Barbara to occupy the country of Trinidad and Tobago with an estimated population of 1,317,714 (as of July 1, 2010).
• What year were 5 or more babies first named Barbara? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1880 when it was given as a first name to 127 new born babies.
• When was Barbara first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Barbara is Tuesday, July 14th, 1829.
• What year had the most people named Barbara born? The highest recorded use of the first name Barbara was in 1947 with a total of 48,791 babies. That's a lot of babies named Barbara!
• Random Barbara Factoid: According to the 1912 U.S. Social Security Administration data, the first name Barbara ranks 50^th in popularity as a baby girl's name in Colorado. Imagine that, 19 babies in Colorado have the same name as you in 1912.
• Weird things about the name Barbara: Your name in reverse order is Arabrab. A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give Baaarrb. How do you pronounce that?
• How many people have the last name Barbara? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 2,986 people with the last name Barbara.
• How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Barbara? If you manage to meet 100,000 people in your life, chances are that 1 of them will have Barbara as their last name.

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