
Baran (name)

Baran is a surname with multiple origins. Most people with this surname come from Poland and Slovakia, where means 'ram' (male sheep). In other European languages, it may be a variant of . it is also a Persian/Kurdish/Turkish origin name meaning "Rain" and "Flood".
It is found in Mexico as a variant of , from Portuguese and Spanish ('rod', 'stick', 'yardstick'), from Late Latin ('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.