Barot Family History

Indian (Gujarat and Rajasthan): from Sanskrit bar ‘twelve’ + hoth ‘lips’. This is interpreted as implying an ability to remember and reproduce information as efficiently as if the person concerned had a dozen mouths.

Bearers of this name are traditionally engaged as bards, genealogists, and mythographers, maintaining family records and preserving them in the oral tradition.

French: topographic name from barot, a diminutive of bare ‘pole, gate, barrier; house enclosed by a paling fence’.

Possibly also Catalan: variant of Barrot ‘iron bar’.