Barnard
19,152 people in the United States were counted with the surname Barnard in the 2020 census, making it the 1,839th most common in the country. That is about one person in 15,600.
By the numbers
- People
- 19,152
- Rank
- 1,839th
- How common
- 1 in 15,600
- Per 100,000
- 6.4
Where the name comes from
Origin a given name
English, Dutch, and French surname, variant of Bernard. This sense is also found in Slavic borrowings (Polish, Slovenian, Czech).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Barnard described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Barnard
- Christiaan Barnard (1922–2001)South African cardiac surgeon
- Edward Emerson Barnard (1857–1923)American astronomer and astronomical photographer
- Aneurin Barnard (born 1987)Welsh actor
- Chester Irving Barnard (1886–1961)American businessman
- John Barnard (born 1946)British motorsport designer
- Arthur Barnard (1929–2018)American hurdler
- Anne Barnard (1750–1825)noblewoman; British writer
- Neal D. Barnard (born 1953)American physician, author, and clinical researcher
People named Barnard with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Barnard
Also a first name
Barnard has been given to 895 American babies as a first name since 1891, peaking in 1963. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.