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The derivation of all these surnames is the profession of barber,. In ancient times, but also in fairly recent times, the barber was a kind of doctor on a smaller scale. The distribution of the surname Barbieri is noteworthy in all of Italy, Barbiero has a Venetian lineage, a Friulian one, but it also presents strains in Campania, Molise and Calabria, Barberis is typically Ligurian and Piedmontese, while Barbierato, where the in-term termination stands for son of Barbiero or son of the barber, has a particular concentration in the Veneto and Barberi in the central regions, the latter could in some cases derive from the toponym Barberi (PE), Barbero is typically Piedmontese and of central and western Liguria.
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