BARBARA

BARBARA is from teh Greek and means stranger or literally a barbarian. When the barbarians invaded ancient Greece they spoke a language that the Greeks could not understand. To imitate these barbarians, the Greeks said 'baa baa'-thus our words babble, barbarian, and strangerly enough this popular name. MEA 'E is an appropriate Hawaiian equivalent for BARBARA. It means extraordinary, unusual, strange, wonderful and stranger-one of another race.


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