Barrett

English

Alternative forms

• Barret, Barritt

Etymology

From the Irish surname converged from several origins, including Barόid, Bairéid, Middle English Baraud (“quarrelsome”) from Old English, and Norman Baraud, from Old French barat (“trickery, deception”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæɹɪt/

Proper noun

Barrett (countable and uncountable, plural Barretts)

1. An English surname from Anglo-Norman.
   • 2024 April 3, Stephen Breyer, “Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.

2. A placename
   1. A number of places in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in Robb Township, Posey County, Indiana.
      2. A minor city in Grant County, Minnesota.
      3. A township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
      4. A census-designated place in Harris County, Texas.
      5. An unincorporated community and coal town in Boone County, West Virginia.
   2. A settlement on Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Barrett”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 106.