The Barrera surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 60,998 people carried this name — #550 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 4,840 people counted. That is up 40% from 43,720 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 48,456 people named Barrera live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 187 people named Barrera.
63 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 32 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
143 people named Barrera live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
21 people named Barrera is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Barrera in American newspapers,
1901–1962.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 19,575 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Barrera,
with a public archive behind them.
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Francisco Barrera 1595–1658 · painter -
Cayetano Alberto Barrera y Leirado 1815–1872 · writer -
Édouard Barrera 1836–1903 · politician -
Juan Barrera 1864–1941 · photographer -
Emilio Barrera 1869–1943 · military personnel
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 222 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Barrera.
- Barras 2,512 · U.S. census
- Barre 2,205 · U.S. census
- Barreau 342 · U.S. census
- Barreda 1,034 · U.S. census
- Barreira 436 · U.S. census
- Barreiro 2,125 · U.S. census
- Barrere 312 · U.S. census
- Barrero 704 · U.S. census
- Barres 242 · U.S. census
- Barresi 1,123 · U.S. census
- Barret 1,430 · U.S. census
- Barreto 10,127 · U.S. census
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