Last names linked to BARAT

Origin

Bara : 1: Polish: from a shortened vernacular form of the personal name Bartłomiej (see Bartholomew).2: Czech (Bára) and Slovak: from a pet form of the female personal name Barbora (Czech) Barbara (Slovak) or possibly of the male personal name Bartoloměj (Czech) Bartolomej (Slovak); see Bartholomew.3: Hungarian: from a short form of the personal name Barabás (see Barabas).4: French: probably from the regional form bara ‘ram’ a nickname relating to some characteristic of this animal or from Old French and Occitan barat ‘ruse guile’ denoting a sly or deceitful person. Compare Barra 3.5: Spanish: habitational name from Bara in Huesca province (Aragon).6: Possibly also Scottish: habitational name from Bara the name of an old manor and parish in East Lothian.

Barath : Hungarian (Baráth): from the vocabulary word barát ‘friend’ (from Slavic brat ‘brother’) hence a nickname for a companionable person. Alternatively it may be an occupational name for a monk from another meaning of the same word or a nickname based on this meaning. The surname Baráth is also found in Slovakia.

Barrett : English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person from Old French barat Middle English bar(r)at bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble distress’ later ‘deception fraud; contention strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).

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