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Across the world, Barnard (Barnard , ברנרד , برنارد , and others...) is quite a rare boy's forename. The given name Barnard is habitual in South Africa, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Israel, where it is a rare boy's name, and the United States. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in South Africa, the United States, and India. More frequently, Barnard is the last name as well as the forename.
Barnard is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Sandman , the Fictional DC Comics character, World's Finest Comics; Bernard , the character from Disney's "The Rescuers"; Bernard Quatermass , the fictional scientist, The Quatermass Xperiment; Bernard Theofiel Waterslaeghers , the fictional character from F.C. De Kampioenen and Bernard Thatch , the character in The West Wing, and in many other works.