English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a
barn on it, from Middle English barn ‘barn’ + hille
‘hill’, or a habitational name from a place named Barnhill, possibly
the one near Broxton in Cheshire named with Old English
bere-ærn ‘barn’ + hyll ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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