Barbara

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Barbara is a female given name , rarely also a family name .

Origin and meaning of the name

The word Barbara is an onomatopoeic word for the barbarians , i.e. the strangers who used words and sounds that the Greeks did not understand , like a babble : Brabrabrabara . The Greek word means “the foreigner” in German, the Latin barbarus means “foreign, foreign, wild”. The term goes back to the Sanskrit word barbarāh (plur.) 'Stammler, Laller' to denote strange peoples (see: barbarian ). The veneration of St. Barbara contributed to the spread of the name .

distribution

At the end of the 19th century the name Barbara was moderately popular in Germany. Its popularity increased from the late 1920s. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the name was one of the ten most frequently given female first names in some years. Then its popularity gradually declined at first, sharply during the 1980s.

name day

December 4th : ( Barbaratag )

Well-known namesake

First name

Barbara or Bárbara

Barbra

family name

stage name

  • Ana Bárbara (* 1971), Mexican singer, actress and model
  • Barbara (1930–1997), French chanson singer and composer
  • Barbara , German street and action artist

Fictional namesake

Ship names

  • Barbara (1908) : The British ferry between England and the Netherlands was initially called Munich , then St. Denis . She was used by the Wehrmacht in 1940 and also after the Second World War as a barge barge.
  • Barbara (1915) : The ship first served as the British minesweeper HMS Zinnia in World War I, then as a fisheries protection ship in Belgium and wasconverted intothe anti-aircraft training ship Barbara after being confiscated by the Germans in 1940.
  • Barbara (1926) : The Barbara was a German cargo ship built in 1926 and the second ship to be equipped with Flettner rotors.

variants

Others:
Baba, Babe, Babi, Babina, Babra, Babs, Bäbs, Babschi, Babsi, Bäbsi, Babsili, Babsl, Baby, Bacha, Baha, Bar, Barb, Barbarella, Barbarina, Barbarita, Barbel, Barbet (h) a, Barbi, Bärbi, Barbie, Bärbla, Barby, Bari, Bobbel, Bobbie, Bobsi, Wara, Wawa, Wetl, Wetty, Barbossa, Bimbolina, Baronella

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"

Web links

Wiktionary: Barbara  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Flag of Slovenia.svg Frequency, regional distribution, and age cohort distribution of the name Barbara in Slovenia