Barkus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Various origins:
- A reduced form of Barkhouse, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a tannery.
- Borrowed from Lithuanian Barkus, a variant of Bartkus.
- Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Barkus, a surname with an unexplained origin.
Proper noun
[edit]Barkus (plural Barkuses)
- A surname.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Barkus is the 39555th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 556 individuals. Barkus is most common among White (69.96%) and Black/African American (24.1%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Barkus”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 102.
Anagrams
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- English terms borrowed from Lithuanian
- English terms derived from Lithuanian
- English terms borrowed from Czech
- English terms derived from Czech
- English terms borrowed from Slovak
- English terms derived from Slovak
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Lithuanian
- English surnames from Czech
- English surnames from Slovak