Barnet
Barnet was last recorded in 1954, when 5 babies were given it; 221 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barnet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Barnet?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,864, in 1954; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1916, the peak
Barnet peaked in 1916, when 15 boys were given it, #1,956 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 5 | #3,864 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,455 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,114 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,753 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,052 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,726 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,451 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,393 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,561 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,368 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 5 | #3,583 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #2,952 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,673 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,485 | 4.3 |
| 1935 | 7 | #2,979 | 6.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,816 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,413 | 5.8 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,582 | 5.6 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,558 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,550 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,855 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,204 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,558 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,290 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 15 | #1,956 | 16.9 |
| 1915 | 14 | #1,978 | 16.5 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,283 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 9 | #1,959 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,531 | 25.6 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,131 | 40.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Barnet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Barnet has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Barnet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barnet, and how old are they?
An estimated 44 Americans named Barnet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 147 people named Barnet (8 women and girls, 139 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 59 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Barnet rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Barnet?
Barnet is a less common spelling of Barnett: SSA has recorded 221 Barnet and 1,285 Barnett since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,506 babies since 1880, Barnet is the second most given (15% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Barnet and names like it
- Compare Barnet and BarnettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBarnet peaked in 1916.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Barnet since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Barnet.
- Names starting with BMost given first.