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barnes Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn or barns, from Middle English barn ‘barn’, ‘granary’. In some cases, it may be a habitational name from Barnes (on the Surrey bank of the Thames in London), which was named in Old English with this word.
  2. English: name borne by the son or servant of a barne, a term used in the early Middle Ages for a member of the upper classes, although its precise meaning is not clear (it derives from Old English beorn, Old Norse barn ‘young warrior’). Barne was also occasionally used as a personal name (from an Old English, Old Norse byname), and some examples of the surname may derive from this use.
  3. Irish: possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bearáin ‘descendant of Bearán’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.
  4. French: variant of Bern.
  5. Jewish: variant of Parnes.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of barnes Families in the US in 1920
Number of barnes families
 839-1675
 280-838		 1-279
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