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A few months ago, this search brought up at least a dozen people named Barak.
TWO baracks. bam and his daddy.
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I found something strange, but don’t know if it’s important or not. Barack is the ANGLICIZED, (WHITE,) version of Barak. obama Sr. never used the name “Barack.” I found a government document he wrote after he had already gone back to Kenya. His name was BARAK, not Barack. Every article now written about him contains the Anglicized version of his name because that is the name Barack Obama GAVE HIMSELF. It was NOT the name his father used.
The meaning of the name Barack is Blessed-NOT TRUE
MUBARAK means blessed.
Note on this list the ONLY two people with the name Barack.
People named Barak or Barack:
Barak Badash, Israeli football player.
Barak Bakhar (born 1979), Israeli football player.
Aharon Barak (born 1936), former President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
Daphne Barak, Israeli-American interviewer.
Ehud Barak (born 1942), former Israeli Prime Minister.
Josef Barák (1833–1883), Czech politician, journalist, and poet.
William Barak (1824–1903), the last traditional elder of the Wurundjeri-willam clan in Australia.
Ze’ev Barak, pseudonym used by Wolf Blitzer (being the Hebrew translation of his name).
Barak Epstein (born 1979), American film director.
Barak Moshe (born 1991), Israeli football player.
Barack Obama (born 1961), 44th and current president of the United States.
Barack Obama, Sr. (1936–1982), Kenyan economist and President Barack Obama’s father.
Barak Sopé (born 1955), Vanuatu politician.
Barak Yitzhaki (born 1984), Israeli football player.
Barack Obama was named after his father Barack (Obama) Sr. Originally from Kenya, he came to the United States as a student.
Barack was named the “2007 Name of the Year” by iVillage.com’s “The Baby Name Wizard” [1]
According to Barack Obama’s website the following etymological definitions are offered:
barik: blessed (Arabic)
baraka: blessing (Arabic)(Kiswahili)
baraka: also berakhah, in Judaism, a blessing usually recited during a ceremony
baruch: Also related to “berakhah” or bracha (Hebrew: berakhot), which is a blessing.
baraka: also barakah, in Arabic and Islam, meaning spiritual wisdom and blessing transmitted from God
“Baraka”, a rarely used French slang term for luck, derived from the Arabic word
NAMESAKES
Barack (Barry) Obama, Sr. – Father of the President of the United States, Barack Obama
FAMOUS PERSONS
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the forty-fourth and current President of the United States of America.