Show ContentsBarnabe History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The enchanting region of Bourgogne was the historical homeland of the prominent surname Barnabe. Barnabe is a topographic surname, which is a type of hereditary surname. These were given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between an individual and their homeland, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, a person who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original village, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came.

Early Origins of the Barnabe family

The surname Barnabe was first found in Burgundy (French: Bourgogne), an administrative and historical region of east-central France.

Early History of the Barnabe family

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Barnabe Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Barnabe, Barnabé, Barnaba, Barnabaud and others.

Early Notables of the Barnabe family

Notable amongst the family at this time was the abbey Jean-Claude Barnabaud, parist priest of Vielverge at the Dijon diocese at the time the Revolution broke out. Bothered by this turn of events, the priest emigrated to Switzerland and, at a Friboug meeting, was designated among the French priests to travel in order to take collections from the States of Europe towards the French clergy, which had suffered...
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Barnabe Ranking

In France, the name Barnabe is the 4,690th most popular surname with an estimated 1,500 - 2,000 people with that name. 1


United States Barnabe migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Barnabe Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
  • John Barnabe, who arrived in Virginia in 1631 2
Barnabe Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Marie-Ambroise Barnabé married in 1752
Barnabe Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Louis Barnabé was a shoemaker in West-Farnham in 1871

Canada Barnabe migration to Canada +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Barnabe Settlers in Canada in the 18th Century
  • a Barnabe family is cited in Nova Scotia in 1700
  • Jean-Baptiste Barnabé was born in Port Royal in 1704
  • Jean Barnabé married in Courville, Quebec in 1754
  • François Barnabé married in Saint-Roch-d'Achigan in 1799
Barnabe Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century
  • Jean-Baptiste Barnabé was a worker in Falls-of-Montreal in 1871
  • Edward Barnabé was a druggist in Montreal in 1891
Barnabe Settlers in Canada in the 20th Century
  • René Barnabé, (born in Port Royal, Quebec in 1671, married in 1695, and died in 1752), one of the first 50 of the Barnabé surname who arrived from France onto Canadian shores between 1600 and 1900

Contemporary Notables of the name Barnabe (post 1700) +

  • Clermont Barnabé, French expert on employment interviewing


  1. http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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