as a Last Name
- 233,996
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Barnes
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 97th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 233,996
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Barnes per capita
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