Barnes

At the 2020 census, 206,431 Americans bore the surname Barnes — 116th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,448.

By the numbers

People: 206,431
Rank: 116th
How common: 1 in 1,448
Per 100,000: 69.1

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the place on the bank of the Thames, derived from the root of the noun barn.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Barnes described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 61.8%
Black, not Hispanic 28.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Barnes

Julian Barnes (born 1946)English writer
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)American Modernist writer, poet and artist
Ben Barnes (born 1981)British actor and singer
John Barnes (born 1963)association football player and manager
Harvey Barnes (born 1997)English association football player
Ashley Barnes (born 1989)English footballer
Harrison Barnes (born 1992)American basketball player
Randy Barnes (born 1966)American shot putter

People named Barnes with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Barnes

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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.