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Comments for the name Barak (1)

Comments for BARAK (1):

Barak Obama is an Illinois senator.
-- watermia  4/18/2006
It's Barack Obama.
-- ADT  1/22/2007
I believe Barack Obama's name is related to the biblical name BARUCH, meaning "blessed" not BARAK.
-- arc72  5/24/2008
The Hebrew pronunciation is bah-rahk.
-- Miss Claire  7/29/2006
I love this name. In David Edding's Belgariad and Mallorean books there are a man called Barak with red hair and is very big. In Leon Uris book Exodus there are a man with red hair and he is called Barak too.
-- honungspinglan  1/7/2007
In Israel Barak is used both as first and family name. And there are so many of them, that sometimes I do not know whom my interlocutor means.
-- carolfourth  6/16/2008
Hebrew pronunciation is bah-RAHK (just like Barack Obama.)
-- noae  11/12/2008
Barak sounds like barĂ¡k meaning house in Czech.
-- MaggieSimpson  1/31/2009
I predict a rise in popularity of this name in the USA.
-- Katsuno_Hitomi  12/23/2009

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