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Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Barbara: Latin Meaning of Barbara: "foreign woman" Barbara's Popularity in 2012: #900
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Can the lively young Barbara Bush erase or replace her grandmother's white-haired image? We doubt it. Like other Baby Boomer favorite names -- Patricia, Susan -- Barbara was hugely popular through the 1950s and early 60s but now has a terminally middle-aged image.

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Famous People Named Barbara

Barbara Bush, wife of President George Bush
Barbara Bush, daughter of President George W. Bush
Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist
Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
Barbara Hutton, American heiress (and Cary Grant's second wife)
Barbara Palvin, Hungarian fashion model
Barbara Stanwyck, American actress
Barbara Walker, Miss America 1947
Barbara Walters, American broadcast journalist
Barbra Park-American author of Junie B. Jones books

Pop Culture References for the Name Barbara

"Barbara Ann," song by the Beach Boys
"Barbara Allen," an old ballad
Barbara "Barbie" Millicent Roberts - full name of the popular Mattel Barbie doll

Nicknames & Variations for Barbara

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

Barbara's 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)

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