Barraquer's family is from Santa Cristina d'Aro (Girona), where there is still their ancestral manor house. Reports suggest that a young man from Germany or Flanders, who came to Spain in the early sixteenth century under the banner of emperor Charles I, after crossing the peninsula, purchased some land in this town, and he built a home with his savings called "old hut", of simple lines and Gothic windows, which were common in the Baix Empordà region. The second name of this young man was too complicated for local people, so it was popularly dubbed "El Barraquer" (the hut man), which became the family dub name of their successors.