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Early records reveal that this surname originates from any of several places named so in the Basque country. At that time, different families took the habitational name as a surname. The etymological origin of the surname Ibarra can be found in the basque word "ibar", which means "meadow" plus the definite article "a". The first known bearer of the name was Juan de Ibarra, natural of Marquina, son of Andrés de Ibarra and María de Ibarra, who was mentioned in a charter as arriving in Perú the 21st of January, 1592. We have also discovered certain details about an individual in the 17th century who beared the surname. Domingo de Ibarra y Ochoa was born the 10th of March in the year 1612. He married doña Salvadora Ferrero in 1657. They had a son, Juan de Ibarra y Ferrero who married doña Agueda Ferré in 1681. This couple's eldest son, Juan de Ibarra y Ferré, born 1701. Compiled information from historical and private archives has confirmed that there was a Guillermo Ibarra, Infanzón de Huesca, who organized a surprise attack on the rebels of Murcia, and, taking advantage of the darkness of the night, overtook a great convoy which was about to enter the city . The king don Jaime I awarded him by giving him tracts of land as well as houses in Orihuela. He also owned five houses in Alicante and Murcia, and one in Almoradí. Nothing further is recorded about his life.