Barnie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A barn owl or barn swallow
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑɹɲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barnie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 111K
- CNChina≈1 in 124K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 111K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A barn owl or barn swallow.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barnie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Barnie | 2 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Barnie | 24 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Barnie | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 496K | — | Barnie | 10 |
| US United States | — | 201 | 1 in 1.7M | 165 | Barnie | 117 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Barnie | 3 |
| LR Liberia | #784 | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Barnie | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Barnie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme liée à Barnabé; araméen « fils de la consolation »; associé à saint Barnabé.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Billy Barnieb. 1853USMajor League Baseball player, manager (1853-1900)
- John Barnieb. 1941GBpoet and editor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 165 | #38,294 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 36 | #38,294 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1928 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1926 | 17 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Barnie mean, and where does it come from?
- A barn owl or barn swallow. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Barnie a male or female name?
- Barnie is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Barnie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Barnie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barnie.
- How do you pronounce Barnie?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑɹɲi/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Barnie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 201 people named Barnie in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Barnie compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Barnie is the 784th most common given name of 2,671 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barnieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Barnie” — the 784th most common given name in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.