Barbara (given name)

Barbara is a female first name, often also family name.

Origin and Meaning of the Name

The word Barbara is an onomatopoeic word for the foreigners ( barbarians ), which used for the Greeks unintelligible words and sounds, like a babbling: Brabrabrabara. The Greek word is in German, the stranger, the Latin barbarus means foreign, foreign, wild. To spread the name of the veneration of Saint Barbara has contributed.

Dissemination

In the late 19th century, the name was moderately popular in Germany Barbara. His popularity rose from the end of the 1920 years. The late forties and early fifties was the name in some vintages of the ten most frequently awarded female name. Then his popularity decreased gradually at first, during the eighties sharply.

Name-day

December 4th ( St. Barbara )

The Barbara - day is the day of remembrance of Barbara of Nicomedia, who died as a martyr in the 3rd century in Nicomedia (Asia Minor). Saint Barbara is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and is the patron saint of the geologists of the dying, assistant against lightning and fire hazard, the artillery, patron saint of miners, the Silesians, the prisoners, the Hunchback, the architects and the helper of the Agency for Technical Relief ( THW).

Barbara branches are cut Traditionally on this day.

Customs

On December 4, takes place in the Allgäu, the so-called " Bärbeletreiben " instead.

Famous names winners

First name

Barbara

  • Barbara of Nicomedia, saints, patron saint of miners, among other things, the artillery and the fire
  • Barbara ( singer ) ( 1930-1997 ), French chanson singer and composer
  • Barbara of Absberg, Abbess of Obermünster
  • Barbara Aland (* 1937), German theologian
  • Barbara Baer ( born 1957 ), Swiss politician
  • Barbara Balogh ( born 1985 ), Hungarian handball player
  • Barbara Bloom ( b. 1951 ), American artist
  • Barbara Buchner (* 1950), Austrian writer
  • Barbara Bush ( born 1925 ), U.S. First Lady amerikanerische
  • Barbara Dennerlein (born 1964 ), German jazz musician
  • Barbara Dex ( b. 1974 ), Belgian singer
  • Barbara Eden ( born 1934 ), American actress
  • Barbara Eligmann (* 1963), German presenter
  • Barbara Feltus (* 1966), German actress
  • Barbara Frey (actress, 1941) ( * 1941 ), German actress
  • Barbara Frey (actress, 1955 ) (* 1955), German actress
  • Barbara Frey ( director ) ( born 1963 ), Swiss theater director
  • Barbara Gruber ( born 1977 ), German ski mountaineer
  • Barbara Hale (* 1922), American actress
  • Barbara Karlich (* 1969), Austrian television presenter
  • Barbara Keller Bauer ( born 1943 ), German chanteuse
  • Barbara Klemm ( * 1939), German photographer
  • Barbara Lierheimer († 1590), victims of the persecution of witches Nördlinger
  • Barbara King ( writer ) ( 1925-2011 ), German writer
  • Barbara Massing ( b. 1960 ), German captain
  • Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), American botanist and geneticist
  • Barbara Meier ( born 1986 ), German mannequin and model
  • Barbara of Poland (1478-1534), Polish Princess, Duchess of Saxony
  • Barbara of Portugal (1711-1758), Portuguese Infanta and queen of Spain
  • Barbara Rudnik (1958-2009), German actress
  • Barbara Schett (* 1976), Austrian tennis player
  • Barbara Schöneberg (* 1974), German presenter
  • Barbara Stamm (* 1944), German politician (CSU )
  • Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990), American actress
  • Barbara Stöckl (* 1963), Austrian television presenter
  • Barbara Stühlmeyer (* 1964), German musicologist, editor and writer
  • Barbara Thalheim (* 1948), German singer and songwriter
  • Barbara Uthman (1514-1575), German entrepreneur
  • Barbara Valentin (1940-2002), Austrian actress
  • Barbara Wagner ( born 1938 ), former Canadian ice skater
  • Barbara Wussow (* 1961), Austrian actress

Barbra

  • Barbra Streisand ( born 1942 ), American singer and actress

Family name

  • Agatha Barbara (1923-2002), Maltese politician
  • Bernard Barbara ( b. 1942 ), French experimental physicist
  • Emanuel Barbara (* 1949), Maltese Bishop of Malindi
  • Etienne Barbara (* 1982 ), Maltese footballer
  • Joan La Barbara ( born 1947 ), American singer and composer
  • Paola Barbara (1912-1989), Italian actress

Fictitious names winners

  • Barbara Block Mountain, the mother of Bibi

Variants

  • Babette ( French diminutive form )
  • Bäbi ( Swiss German)
  • Bäerbel ( Luxembourgish )
  • Bairbre ( Irish)
  • Barba ( Breton )
  • Bárbara (Portuguese, Spanish)
  • Barbe (French)
  • Barbe ( Lithuanian )
  • Bärbel ( German short form)
  • Barbla (Romansh )
  • Barbora ( Lithuanian, Slovak, Czech)
  • Barbra ( English Nebenform )
  • Barbro ( Swedish Nebenform )
  • Basia ( Polish short form [' baɕa ] )
  • Borbála ( Hungarian)
  • Borbora ( Upper Sorbian, [' bɔʀbɔʀa ] )
  • Rabab (Arabic )
  • Varvara ( Варвара in the Cyrillic alphabet ) ( Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian )

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