Name: Barney
Gender: Male
Usage: Barney, of hebrew origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Barney are in general originating from United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Barney across the world, see Barnabas.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Barney is: Son of consolation.
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Numerology of the first name Barney: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 11. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: charismatic, inspiring, dreamy, six-sensed, discerning.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Charismatic, Inspiring
Ruling planet: Moon
Colors: Green, Cream
Gemstones: Pearl, Jade, Moonstone
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The name Barney is ranked on the 3,124th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 113300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Barney has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Barney for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Barney is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Barney Aaron (1800–1850), English-born American Hall of Fame lightweight bare-knuckle boxer
- Young Barney Aaron (1836–1907), English-born American bare-knuckle boxer; son of Barney Aaron
- Barney Barnato (1851–1897), British mining entrepreneur, one of those who gained control of diamond, and later gold, mining in South Africa
- Barney Bigard (1906–1980), American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist
- Barney Danson (1921–2011), Canadian politician and cabinet minister
- Barney Dreyfuss (1865–1932), owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team
- Barney Frank (born 1940), US Representative
- Barney Harwood (born 1979), Blue Peter presenter
- Barney Kessel (1923–2004), American jazz guitarist
- Barney Lebrowitz (1891–1949), better known as "Battling Levinsky", American Hall of Fame world champion light heavyweight boxer
- Barney Martin (1923–2005), American actor
- Barney McCosky (1917–1996), Major League Baseball outfielder
- Barney Oldfield (1878–1946), American automobile racer and pioneer
- Barney Pelty (1880–1939), American Major League Baseball player
- Barney Poole (1923–2005), National Football League player
- Barney Ross (1909–1967),American Hall of Fame world champion lightweight and junior welterweight boxer born Dov-Ber Rasofsky
- Barney Rosset (1922–2012), owner of the publishing house Grove Press, and publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Evergreen Review
- Barney Sedran (1891–1964), Hall of Fame NBA basketball player
- Barney Wilen (1937–1996), French saxophonist
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