Frequency: (207)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Portuguese: habitational name for someone ‘from (de) Barros’, of which there are numerous examples, all named from the plural of barro ‘clay’.
GIVEN NAMES: Spanish 19%; Portuguese 15%; French 7%. Manuel (7), Marcelo (3), Isaura (2), Jose (2), Raul (2), Roberto (2), Dominga, Fernando, Francisco, Lauro, Mario, Natalio; Paulo (2), Almir, Joao, Joaquim, Manoel, Vasco; Armand, Celina, Jean Claude, Jean-Pierre, Micheline, Napoleon.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
