Barabbas means ‘son of Abba’. There’s a theological significance right there since Abba could also mean ‘father’ - plus points since in some manuscripts of Matthew’s gospel Barabbas’ name is given as Jesus. So what you have is, Pilate presenting the people two Jesuses. (There’s another line of interpretation which says that Barabbas is actually a nickname bar-Rabban ‘son of the teacher’.)
It’s not like it’s anything new - you had a guy named Dancell-Dallphebo-Mark-Anthony-Gallery-Cesar living in the 16th century. But on the other hand, you did have 16th-17th century Puritans naming their children things like Praise-God, If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned, Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world- to-save or even Humiliation or Forsaken or Sorry-for-sin or Die-Well. So it goes both ways I guess.
In Hebrew the word for ‘son (of)’ is ben; the Aramaic equivalent is bar (yes, bar mitzvah is an Aramaic term). So Yeshua bar-Yosef and Yeshua ben-Yosef are both correct. (‘Daughter (of)’ is bat in both Aramaic and Hebrew.)
You have one instance in all four gospels where Jesus gets identified by His (earthly) father and place of origin. “Philip found Nathanael and said to him, ‘We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.’” (John 1:45)
The latter two saints had last names of some sort, BTW: Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (Teresa of Avila); Juan de Yepes y Álvarez (John of the Cross). Both their parents’ surnames - the father’s first, followed by the mother’s maiden name - are indicated as per Spanish naming customs.
