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Varvara Varvara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ var-VAH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Stranger (Russian / Greek Barbara + Great Martyr Saint Barbara)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Russian)

A name that means "stranger (russian / greek barbara + great martyr saint barbara)".

Varvara is from the Russian Варвара / Greek Βαρβάρα (Varvara — foreign, stranger) — Russian + Greek rendition of Latin/Greek Barbara. Varvara is one of the Russian + Greek feminine names — central to traditional Eastern Orthodox heritage. Russian-Greek feminine name reflecting Orthodox heritage.

Stranger (Russian / Greek Barbara + Great Martyr Saint Barbara).

The name in its native script.

Варвара
Transliteration
Varvara
Pronunciation
/ vɑːrˈvɑː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Varvara stands.

Varvara does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Varvaras before her.

Real people
Saint Barbara / Varvara
Early Christian martyr c. 273-306 CE + patron of artillerymen + miners + Saint Barbara's Day December 4.
c. 273 – 306 CE
In fiction
Varvara Bubnova
Russian-Japanese artist + pioneer of Russian-Japanese cultural heritage.
1886 – 1983

Names connected to Varvara.

The number behind Varvara.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Varvara reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.