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barna Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian: from the ancient Germanic personal name Barna.
  2. Italian: possibly from a short form of the personal name Barnaba (see Barnaby 1).
  3. Hungarian: from a short form of the personal name Barnabás (see Barnaby 1).
  4. Polish (also Slovak and Ukrainian): from a derivative of the personal name Biernat, Polish form of German Bernhard.
  5. Possibly from Polish dialect barna, brona ‘harrow’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a peasant who used a harrow.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of barna Families in the US in 1920
Number of barna families
 31-59
 11-30		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 49 - Messages: 185
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David Barna amykat84 0
Barna JeanetteDomanski 15
John Barna 1903 Pennsylvania scipolla11 0
Barna from Freeland, Pa-Michael, Peter, Ellie, John, Mary, & Eva lynnpol1 14
BARNA family from Urmenyhaza, Hungary Annette Fulford 0
Obit; Esther J. Fritz (nee Barna) 1915-2OO8 woodsman1953 0
BARNA Elaine Barna Bove 42
Obit: Wasyl Barna, d. Sep 3 1963 JLBURKET 1
Michael Barna furrsnatcher1 3
Dimitrie and Mary Barna Laurie56672 0
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