# Barnett (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/barnett/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,285 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,279 / 6 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 6 | 4,512 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | 4,362 |
| 1976 | 7 | 4,472 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,417 |
| 1980 | 8 | 4,535 |
| 1981 | 7 | 5,000 |
| 1982 | 13 | 3,307 |
| 1983 | 6 | 5,546 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,410 |
| 1987 | 7 | 5,516 |
| 1989 | 5 | 8,009 |
| 1990 | 6 | 7,262 |
| 1991 | 5 | 8,328 |
| 2009 | 5 | 12,699 |
| 2013 | 5 | 12,357 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,290 |

## People named Barnett

- Barnett Newman, American painter (1905—1970)
- Barnett Rosenberg, American chemist (1926–2009)
- Barnett Parker, British actor (1886-1941)
- John Rambo, American athletics competitor (1943–2022)
- Hampton Hawes, American jazz pianist (1928–1977)
- Norman Tindale, Australian anthropologist (1900-1993)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.