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Barney is an English variant form of the English and German Barnabas. Barney is a short form of the English Barnaby. Barney is also an English variant form of the English and French Bernard. See also the related form, the English Barny. 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 and French Bernard was the most regularly used in 2007. Baby names that sound like Barney include the English Barny, the English Bernie, the Albanian Brahim, the English and Irish Brennan, the English Brennen, the English and Irish Brian, the German and Italian Bruno, the English and German Bryan, the English Bryon, the Arabic and Turkish Burhan, the Albanian Burim, the English Byron, the Scandinavian Bjarne, the Scandinavian Björn, the Scandinavian Bjørn, the Dutch and English Bram, the English Brayan, and the English Bron. 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)" Details of famous persons named Barney:
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