Barnet — boys' name

What the Data Says About Barnet

The Social Security Administration has registered 221 babies named Barnet between 1898 and 1954, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Barnet currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1954. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 15 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Barnet performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Barnet shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 57 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Barnet in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Barnet in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 221 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.