Barkus

Various origins:

• A reduced form of Barkhouse, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a tannery.
• Borrowed from Lithuanian Barkus, a variant of Bartkus.
• Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Barkus, a surname with an unexplained origin.

Barkus (plural Barkuses)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Barkus is the 39555^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 556 individuals. Barkus is most common among White (69.96%) and Black/African American (24.1%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Barkus”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 102.

• burkas

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarkus]

Barkus m pers (female equivalent Barkusová)

1. a male surname

• “Barkus”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025