Barr

At the 2020 census, 42,818 Americans bore the surname Barr — 785th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,981.

By the numbers

People: 42,818
Rank: 785th
How common: 1 in 6,981
Per 100,000: 14.3

Where the name comes from

As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, from barr (“height, hill, tip”). As an English surname, from bar.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Barr described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.6%
Black, not Hispanic 11.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Barr

Roseanne Barr (born 1952)American actress and comedian
William Barr (born 1950)77th & 85th United States Attorney General
Jean-Marc Barr (born 1960)French-American actor and director
Bob Barr (born 1948)American attorney and politician
Matt Barr (born 1984)American actor
Candy Barr (1935–2005)American pornographic actress, stripper
Epsy Campbell Barr (born 1963)Costa Rican politician
Nevada Barr (born 1952)American novelist

People named Barr with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Barr

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.