English Explanatory Dictionary

Barron

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Anglo-Norman.
  2. A male given name.
  3. A city, the county seat of Barron County, Wisconsin, United States.
  4. A town in Barron County, Wisconsin, surrounding the city of the same name.
  5. A rural locality in Cairns Region, northern Queensland, Australia.

Word forms

Barron

Etymology

* As a Scottish surname, from Scots baron, sometimes found as McBarron; see Baron. * As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), a personal name from bior (“spear”). See Barnes, Barrington. * As a Spanish surname, augmentative of Barro. * As a French and Spanish surname, variant of Baron.

Derived words

Barron County Lady Barron
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