Barnett
Barnett was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,285 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barnett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Barnett mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Barnett is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Barnett?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,284, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1923, the peak
Barnett peaked in 1923, when 36 boys were given it, #1,198 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #12,284 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,350 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,694 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,321 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,254 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,002 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,509 | 3.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,406 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,542 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,306 | 7.2 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 7 | #4,998 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,533 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,415 | 3.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,470 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,360 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,551 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 7 | #3,996 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,907 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,697 | 6.2 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,258 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,477 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,215 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,309 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,198 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,245 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 19 | #1,861 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,672 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,267 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 21 | #1,752 | 9.7 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,829 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,846 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,767 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,104 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 21 | #1,667 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,910 | 8.5 |
| 1950 | 21 | #1,616 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 19 | #1,708 | 10.7 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,488 | 13.7 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,853 | 9.3 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,440 | 14.8 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,777 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,235 | 21.3 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,768 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,336 | 19.5 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,914 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,371 | 20.7 |
| 1939 | 15 | #1,799 | 13.6 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,617 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,694 | 15.9 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,643 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,765 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,130 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,836 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,467 | 22.0 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,852 | 15.4 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,089 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,526 | 21.4 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,167 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,802 | 16.9 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,666 | 18.9 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,630 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,662 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,198 | 32.8 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,368 | 26.7 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,416 | 25.4 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,350 | 27.2 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,814 | 18.4 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,601 | 21.7 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,133 | 37.8 |
| 1916 | 32 | #1,159 | 36.0 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,607 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 35 | #935 | 53.5 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,174 | 37.1 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,139 | 39.5 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,196 | 39.8 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,123 | 46.3 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,468 | 30.5 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,359 | 34.1 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,125 | 45.1 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,018 | 50.3 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,327 | 33.2 |
| 1899 | 9 | #723 | 84.7 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,012 | 48.9 |
| 1897 | 6 | #945 | 53.2 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,115 | 41.8 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,091 | 43.2 |
| 1880 | 5 | #923 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Barnett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Barnett has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 87 years of records.
Girls and boys named Barnett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barnett, and how old are they?
An estimated 417 Americans named Barnett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (33% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 56 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 657 people named Barnett (46 women and girls, 611 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 507 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Where are babies named Barnett born?
The states with the most babies named Barnett are New York, Georgia and Pennsylvania, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 173 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Barnett is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Barnett is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Barnett with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,506 babies since 1880, Barnett is the most given (85% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Barnett
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Barnett and names like it
- Compare Barnett and BarnetBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBarnett peaked in 1923.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Barnett since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Barnett: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Barnett.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Barnett alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.