| Name info: About the name Bärbel in particular | | Gender: | female |
| Languages of use: | German |
| Is diminutive of: | Barbara |
| Topics: | Asteroid 4569 Baerbel, discovered 1985 |
| US 2021 rank: | not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below |
| Similarly written: | Bartel, Abel, Ábel, Arbën, Arbër, Arel, Ariel, Ariel, Armel, Arnel Details |
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| Group info: About Barbara, the group of names with the same origin as Bärbel | | Meaning/translation: | the foreign |
| Language of origin: | Latin |
| Info about origin: | from a very old word root reaching back to Indoeuropean that echoes the unintelligible speech of foreigners |
| | known from Saint Barabara of Nicomedia (3th/4th century AD) |
| Words: | barbari = the barbars, the stammering people Latin |
| | barbaros = foreign, barbaric Old Greek |
| | barbar = the unintelligible speech Indoeuropean |
| Topics: | 14 Holy Helpers, Interesting |
| Variants' top ranks: | 2:Barbare Georgia 2014, 4:Barbara USA 1990, 8:Varvara Moscow 2013, 8:Barbora Czechia 2013, 31:Bárbara Chile 2007, 48:Barbro Sweden 2014, 59:Borbála Hungary 2012, 76:Bärbel Germany 2005 |
| Name variants: | Babette, Babsi, Barbara, Bárbara, Barbare, Bärbel, Barbora, Barbra, Barbro, Basia, Borbála, Varvara Sortable list Details |
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