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 [ 2 syll. bar-ney, ba-rn-ey ] The boy name Barney is pronounced BAARNiy KEY. Barney is of Aramaic and Germanic origin, and it is used mainly in the English language. In addition, Barney is an English pet form of the English and German Barnabas. Barney is also an English pet form of the English, French, and Italian Bernard. Forms of Barney include the variant spellings Barnie (English) and Barny (English). Barney is unusual as a baby name for boys. In 1900, 0.051% of baby boys were given the name Barney. Its ranking then was #216. The baby name has since markedly declined in popularity, and is used only on an infrequent scale now. Among the group of boy names directly linked to Barney, the English, French, and Italian Bernard was the most regularly used in 2008. Baby names that sound like Barney include the English Barnie, the English Barny, the Albanian Bajram, the Hebrew Baram, the Russian Baran, the Hungarian Barna, the English Baron, the English Barron, the English Berin, the English Berman, the English Bernie, the Czech Berno, the English Berny, the name Berwin, the English Birin, the English Biron, the Scandinavian Bjarni, the Albanian Brahim, the Indian Brahma, and the English Brannon. Details of famous persons named Barney: KEY: Pronunciation for Barney: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"   |
