Barran Family History

English (Yorkshire): possibly a nickname from Middle English bar(r)ain, bar(r)en, baran ‘barren’ (Old French barain, baraigne). As a hereditary surname the sense ‘destitute poor worthless’ seems more likely than ‘sterile childless’.

Galician (Barrán): habitational name from any of the three places so called in Ourense province (Galicia, Spain). This surname is also found in Biscay (Basque Country).

Americanized form of Polish, Czech, or other Slavic Baran.