Girl · Greek
Varvara
Say it: var-VAH-rah
Meaning
Russian form of Barbara, from Greek barbaros 'foreign'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Common among the Russian merchant and peasant classes in the 19th century and revived in the 2000s.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 141 babies given this name since 1975
- At its height in 2016, about 1 in 104,000 girls
- 6 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Варвара
| Ukrainian | Varvara |
|---|---|
| Polish | Barbara |
| Bulgarian | Varvara |
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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