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I don't know any Barbaras and have never met any. The only vague associations I have with it are Barbara Castlemaine, Charles II's mistress, and the colour gold. So I think of magnificent barbaric powerful shiny ladies with red hair, wearing cloth of gold, and I quite like the name.

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Barbie and Babs, though? Puketastic. That would definitely have put me off using it when they were popular. Someone suggested Bara as an nn - might have been Sofia - much nicer.