Barnard

Meanings

1. A surname transferred from the given name.
2. A number of places in the United States:
3. An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Putnam County, Indiana.
4. A minor city in Lincoln County, Kansas, named after railroad official J. F. Barnard.
5. An unincorporated community in Marion Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan.
6. A minor city in Nodaway County, Missouri, also named after J. F. Barnard.
7. An unincorporated community in Brown County, South Dakota.
8. A town and unincorporated community therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, originally named Bernard.

Etymology

English, Dutch, and French surname, variant of Bernard. This sense is also found in Slavic borrowings (Polish, Slovenian, Czech). Also Americanized from German Bernhard, Bernhardt, of the same meaning.