Barnie
Barnie was last recorded in 1972, when 6 babies were given it; 646 Americans have been recorded with it between 1892 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barnie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Barnie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,483, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1927, the peak
Barnie peaked in 1927, when 23 boys were given it, #1,606 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 | #4,483 | 3.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,067 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,083 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,073 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,646 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 5 | #3,990 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,924 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,846 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,386 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,379 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 10 | #2,445 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,727 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,026 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,371 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,546 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,135 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,814 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 7 | #2,988 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,723 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,341 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,486 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,851 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,666 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,562 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,808 | 14.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #2,980 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #2,999 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,755 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,852 | 15.3 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,215 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,309 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,103 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,709 | 18.1 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,606 | 20.4 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,915 | 15.3 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,098 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,782 | 17.7 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,879 | 16.4 |
| 1922 | 17 | #1,953 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,769 | 18.2 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,825 | 17.9 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,701 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,716 | 19.7 |
| 1917 | 15 | #1,997 | 16.2 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,053 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,555 | 23.6 |
| 1914 | 11 | #1,981 | 16.8 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,502 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,062 | 16.3 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,399 | 31.0 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,607 | 25.7 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,287 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,384 | 32.4 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,126 | 45.1 |
| 1900 | 9 | #908 | 59.8 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,013 | 48.9 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,074 | 44.3 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,116 | 41.8 |
| 1895 | 6 | #986 | 51.1 |
| 1894 | 6 | #963 | 51.8 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,047 | 44.5 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,079 | 41.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Barnie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Barnie has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Barnie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barnie, and how old are they?
An estimated 106 Americans named Barnie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 68 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 201 people named Barnie (36 women and girls, 165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% 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).
How common is the spelling Barnie?
Barnie is a less common spelling of Barney: SSA has recorded 646 Barnie and 16,181 Barney since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 16,827 babies since 1880, Barnie is the second most given (3.8% 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 Barnie
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 Barnie and names like it
- Compare Barnie and BarneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBarnie peaked in 1927.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Barnie since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Barnie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Barnie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.