"Barry" is also a common Anglicized form of the Hebrew name name "Baruch" meaning "blessed (by God)". This is the source for many of the famous Barrys with Jewish last names. For example the famous conservative Barry Morris Goldwater's grandfather was a Jewish emigrant from Poland named Goldwasser. The last name was changed around 1860, … Read more

The name "Barack" in Swahili and Arabic is the same name as "Baruch" in Hebrew, and that name is also sometimes Anglicized as "Barry". For example the politician Barack Obama at times has used the first name "Barry".

This name sounds very English, and in fact it is English in this form, but it is derived from a much older Irish Gaelic name Barra. This itself is a short form of the ancient name Fionnbarr, or Finbar. Finbar comes from Fionn, "white" or "fair" and Barr "head," so it meand white- or fair-haired. … Read more