Barbeau is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Barbeau
No. of characters: 7
Origin: United States
Meaning: No doubt the nickname of a goatee carrier (former French barbel, short beard). The surname is common in the West (85, 79, 49). Varientes: Barbault, Barbeaud, Barbeault. Found in other regions forms Barbau, Barbaut, Barbaux (59, 62) and Barbeaux (39, 88).

How popular is Barbeau?

Barbeau is common in United States.

Barbeau is ranked 50356 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Barbeau bearers increased by 2.816901 per cent in 2010 US census to 1971 since 2000, the surname slipped by 663 spots and ranked at 14991. The last name was found in around 7 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 90.56 91.86
Hispanic or Latino 3.15 1.98
Black 2.59 2.71
Others 2.13 2.24
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.96 0.83
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.61 0.37
Barbeau is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Canada which signifies that it is originated from Canada. Around 9430 people have been found who wears Barbeau as their family name. Barbeau is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
710 French Polynesia3
5,298 Botswana2
124,220 Italy2
52,939 United Arab Emirates2
810,193 Indonesia1
15,162 Costa Rica1
174,544 Czech Republic1
13,606 Senegal1
2,613 The Bahamas1
77,122 Sweden1
6,033 Benin1
2,037 Cayman Islands1
172,258 Germany1
31,207 Ireland1
12,745 Luxembourg1
2,935 Madagascar1
9,591 Panama1
4,999 Papua New Guinea1
36,678 Singapore1
6,820 Angola1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
41,256 Australia50
107,506 England27
14,963 Scotland26
26,722 New Zealand14
78,557 Netherlands13
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
13,957 Switzerland81
3,598 Mauritius73
Countries with hundreds of Barbeau:
11,162 South Africa566
23,602 Mexico131
Countries with thousands of Barbeau:
1,457 Canada3,558
3,007 France2,535
14,551 United States2,331
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Barbeau
 Barbeau is a family name that has two origins that means 1- name meaning in old French and Occitan tip, tooth, designated one who used bards barbeles 2- designated in Occitan, a kind of fish, which received its name because of the son-shaped beard he wears each side of the mouth of the nickname means the seller of this species of fish.

Barbeau Namesakes

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  • Anton Barbeau, Singer
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