Female first name (Spanish): Bárbara, the stranger; Latin (14 helpers); barbari = the barbarians, the stammering, barbaros = strange, barbaric (Greek); barbar = the unintelligible speech (Indo), reaching back from one down to the Indo-European word , the onomatopoeic describes the incomprehensible language of strangers, spread by the veneration of Saint Barbara of Nicomedia (3 / 4 c.)