Barca
loc · Latin script
Meaning: a small boat (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Barca is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DZAlgeria
- PTPortugal
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 215 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bàrçà in DZ Algeria.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a small boat
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Barca counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 838 | Barca | 215 |
| ES Spain | — | 1.2K | Barca | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Barca | 61 |
| PT Portugal | — | — | Barca | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | — | — | Bàrçà | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 871 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 505 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Barca is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, , cf. barca, subst. ard. (femeie proasta) Ii bare, ard. (dumbrava), omonimul barca (luntre) hind neologism nu intra In cauza. 1. Bare (Dm) ; Barzul t. mold. 2. Barca b., 1696 (RI IX 49). 3. Barcea zis si Btrcea fam. (Pal) ; - S. (Isp 1112). 4. Barcianu doi profesori ardeleni, cf. 1i ung. Barcsay. 5. Barcioiul, Drag. (17 B IV 97). Pentru Barcan v. §i Bare.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In Italian, do lat. barca; pode indicar fabricante, mercador ou condutor de barcos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Portuguese, small boat
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In English, A surname from Punic, particularly (historical) a dynasty of Carthaginian leaders.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, baris (a type of flat-bottomed freighter used on the Nile in Ancient Egypt)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hasdrubal Barcab. 245TNCarthaginian general
- Hannibalb. 247TNnot in their usual nameCarthaginian general (247–183/181 BC)
- Hamilcar Barcab. 275TNCarthaginian general (c. 275 – 228 BC)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Barca mean, and where does it come from?
- a small boat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Barca have the most bearers?
- Barca is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled barca.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barcaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Barca” — ranked 28824th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.