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barnaby Name Meaning and History

  1. from the Middle English vernacular form of the personal name Barnabas, which was borne by the companion of St Paul (Acts 4:36). This is of Aramaic origin, from Barnabia ‘son of Nabia’, a personal name perhaps meaning ‘confession’.
  2. habitational name from Barnaby in North Yorkshire, named with the Old English personal name Beornwald (composed of the elements beorn ‘young warrior’ + wald ‘rule’) + Old Norse býr ‘settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of barnaby Families in the US in 1920
Number of barnaby families
 25-48
 9-24		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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