What does the name Barbara mean?

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What does the name Barbara mean?

Answer 1

look it up on babynames.com

Answer 2

I found this for you on www.ancestry.com

Barbara

English, German, and Polish: from Latin, meaning “foreign woman” (a feminine form of barbarus foreign, from Greek, referring originally to the unintelligible chatter of foreigners, which sounded to the Greek ear like no more than bar-bar). St Barbara has always been one of the most popular saints in the calendar, although there is some doubt whether she ever existed. According to legend, she was imprisoned in a tower and later murdered by her father, who was then struck down by a bolt of lightning; accordingly, she is the patron of architects, stonemasons, and fortifications, and of firework makers, artillerymen, and gunpowder magazines. The name is now occasionally modishly spelled Barbra, notably in the case of the actress and singer Barbra Streisand (b. 1942). Cognates: Irish Gaelic: Bairbre. Scottish Gaelic: Barabal. Swedish: Barbro. Czech: Barbora. Russian: Varvara. Hungarian: Borbála.

Short forms: English: Barb (mainly U.S. informal). French: Barbe.

Pet forms: English: Barbie, Babs. Irish Gaelic: Baibín. German: Bärbel. Polish: Basia. Czech: Bára, Bora, Bar(cin)ka, Barun(k)a, Baruska.

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Answer 3

The meaning of Barbara is stranger

Answer 4

I have no idea what it means, but I know a Barbara, and she is the sweetest of ladies...So perhaps it could mean sweet lady...lol