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BANDINI : Means "son of Bandino" from the Latin name Bandinus.

BANDONI : Means "son of Bandone" from the medieval name Bandone meaning "sheet of iron".

BANDYOPADHYAY : From bandha "bonds of Karma" and upadhaya "instructor, priest". It means "he who teaches about the bonds of Karma". It was first bestowed on people as...

BANES : Variant of BAINES (1).

BANIK : Means "miner" in Slovak.

BANISTER : Meant "basket maker" in Norman French.

BANKS : Means "by the bank".

BANNER : Occupational name for a flag carrier, derived from Old French baniere meaning "banner", ultimately of Germanic origin.

BANNERMAN : Variant of BANNER.

BARACNIK : Denoted a farmer in Bohemia with less land than a Sedlak, Zahradnik or Chalupnik, but more land than a tenant farmer.

BARBER : Indicated one who cut hair for a living.

BARBIERI : Italian cognate of BARBER.

BARDAKÇI : Means "glassmaker" from bardak, the Turkish word for "glass".

BARDSLEY : From the name a village lying between Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham, in the County of Lancashire, England. It means "Beornred's clearing" in Old Englis...

BARENDS : Means "son of Barend", where Barend is from BERNHARD.

BARIS : Occupational name for a "shepherd", from Albanian bari.

BARIŞ : From the given name BARIŞ.

BARKER : From Middle English bark(en) "to tan", an occupational name for a leather tanner.

BARLOW : Derived from a number of English place names which variously mean "barley hill", "barn hill", "boar clearing" or "barley clearing".

BARNA : Means "brown" in Hungarian.

BARNES : Denoted a person who worked or lived in a barn. The word barn is derived from Old English bere "barley" combined with oern "house".

BARNET : Variant of BARNETT.

BARNETT : Derived from place originating from Old English bœrnet "cleared by burning".

BARONE : From the title of barone "baron", derived from the Germanic baro "free man".

BARRET : Variant of BARRETT.

BARRETT : Derived from Middle English meaning "dispute", originally given to a quarrelsome person.

BARROS : From the word barro meaning "clay" or "mud". It probably originated from an occupation of a person who worked with clay or mud, such as a builder or a...

BARSAMIAN : Means "son of a priest" in Armenian.

BARSETTI : Means "son of Barsetto" from the Latin name Barsectus.

BARTA : Derived from the shortened form of Bartalom, the old Hungarian form of BERTALAN.



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