The name "Barack" in Swahili and Arabic is the same name as "Baruch" in Hebrew, and that name is also sometimes Anglicized as "Barry". For example the politician Barack Obama at times has used the first name "Barry".

"Barry" is also a common Anglicized form of the Hebrew name name "Baruch" meaning "blessed (by God)". This is the source for many of the famous Barrys with Jewish last names. For example the famous conservative Barry Morris Goldwater's grandfather was a Jewish emigrant from Poland named Goldwasser. The last name was changed around 1860, … Read more