The Barras surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,124 people carried this name — #13,187 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 126,600 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
1,447 people named Barras live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Fribourg.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 1,285 people named Barras.
44 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 72 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 88 people named Barras live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Walloon Brabant.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Barras.
- Barragan 16,021 · U.S. census
- Barral 250 · U.S. census
- Barran 299 · U.S. census
- Barranco 1,945 · U.S. census
- Barrand 307 · U.S. census
- Barranger 144 · U.S. census
- Barre 1,691 · U.S. census
- Barreau 286 · U.S. census
- Barreda 906 · U.S. census
- Barreira 450 · U.S. census
- Barreiro 1,678 · U.S. census
- Barrera 43,720 · U.S. census
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