BARBARA  

Gender: F
Origin: Latin
Meaning: "foreign woman"

Popularity in 2008: #758

Can the lively young Barbara Bush erase or replace her grandmother's white-haired image. We doubt it.

Variations:
Bar, Barbi, Bobby, Barby, Bobbi, Bobbee, Barb, Barbie, Bab, Barbe, Babs, Babbie, Barra, Baba, Babba, Bobbie, Barbee

International Variations:
Babette (French) Babara (Hawaiian) Borbála (Hungarian) Baibín, Baírbre (Irish Gaelic) Barbarella (Italian) Barbika, Barbica (Nordic) Basia, Basha (Polish) Varinka, Vary, Varenka, Varyusha, Varvara (Russian) Barabal (Scottish Gaelic) Barbro (Swedish)

Barbara is being discussed in our message boards:

• Middle Names for either CLAIRE or ABIGAIL
• Triple A, Triple B, Triple C... Girls!
• BABY NAME GAME - lots of kids, lots of questions!
• People named after something else
• Erin? In or out of vogue?

Read Nameberry blog posts about Barbara:

• MOST POPULAR NAMES: How "The List" Was Born
• CONFESSIONS OF A SECRET NAME NERD
• HELLO DOLLY: Names from the Doll World
• PRINCESS NAMES
• THE FOUR-GENERATION RULE