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Barnett

Boys' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Barnett has been given to 1,285 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Barnett, 2015

1 in 740,000

Barnett over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Barnett: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Barnett means

Barnett is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Barnett is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Barnett is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,279 boys were recorded with the name Barnett between 1880 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1923; its best national rank was #723 in 1899.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Barnett between 1924 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1924; its best national rank was #4,510 in 1924.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Barnett?

Barnett had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Barnett sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barnett. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Barnetts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Barnett was born before 1937 — so the typical Barnett is around 88 today.

Median birth year
1937
About 88 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
396
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.1% of all recorded uses (232).

Is Barnett rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (36)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#723
1899

Spellings of Barnett

Barnett is not the most common spelling — Brett is, with 30.7% against Barnett's 0.25%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Barnett is used

Across 1910–2025, Barnett was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 215,959 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Barnett has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Barnett by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#723
1899
Peak year
1923
36 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
1,279
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,510
1924
Peak year
1924
6 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
1924
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Barnett

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Barnett

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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