Barnes

Meanings

1. A surname.
2. An English toponymic surname transferred from the common noun for someone who owned, lived in, or worked in a barn.
3. A habitational surname from Middle English for someone from the place of the same name in Surrey.
4. A placename
5. A suburb of London in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, England, originally a town in Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2276).
6. An inner suburb and ward in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (approx OS grid ref NZ3856).
7. A minor city in Washington County, Kansas, United States.
8. A small town in the far south of the Riverina, New South Wales, Australia.

1. plural of barne

Etymology

* As an English surname, from the place on the bank of the Thames, derived from the root of the noun barn. * Also as an English surname, variant of Barne, from both a Middle English personal name from Old Norse Bjǫrn and Old English Beorn, and from the noun barn (“child”). Semantically compare Child. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), a byname from bior (“spear”). * As a French surname, variant of Bernes, from a short form of a Germanic name derived from Frankish *berō (“bear”), similar to Bernhard. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Parnes, from Yiddish פּרנס (prns), from Hebrew פַּרְנָס (“leader of a Jewish community, provider”).