Baran (surname)
Baran is a surname with multiple origins. Most people with this surname come from Poland and Slovakia, where baran means 'ram' (male sheep). In other European countries, it may be a variant of Baron.
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It is found in Mexico as a variant of Vara, from Portuguese and Spanish vara ('rod', 'stick', 'yardstick'), from Late Latin vara ('forked stick'). It may have been given to a keeper of animals, who used a stick to urge his charges on, or to an official who was responsible for checking weights and measures or who carried a rod as a symbol of his office.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Bernard Baran (1965–2014), child care worker convicted and later exonerated of sex abuse
- Martin Baran (born 1988), Slovak football player
- Paul Baran (1926–2011), American inventor of packet switching
- Paul A. Baran (1910–1964), American economist
- Phil S. Baran (born 1977), American chemist
- Radosław Baran (born 1989), Polish wrestler
- Robert Baran (born 1992), Polish wrestler
- Stanisław Baran (1920–1993), Polish football player
- Witold Baran (born 1939), Polish middle distance runner
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