Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish : from a medieval personal name, Baro(ne), from the status name baró ‘free man’, ‘baron’.
- Catalan (Baró) : from Germanic bero ‘bear’ or the status name baró ‘free man’, ‘baron’ (see Baron 1).
- Hungarian (Báró) : status name from báró ‘baron’. In the form Baró, it could be from a pet form of the personal names Barabás (see Barabas) or Bertalan.