# Barre (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/barre/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from French.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,205 |
| US rank (2010) | 13,727 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 140,021 people |
| Change since 2000 | +30% (1,691 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /bæɹi/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the French surname, named after several places containing Barre in France.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Barre in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 64% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 27% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Barre in France.

## People named Barre

- Raymond Barre, 85th Prime Minister of France (1924-2007)

## Similar surnames

Bauer, Barry, Barr, Barrow, Baer, Bair, Bahr, Bare, Baier, Barrie, Baur, Barra.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.