Barnett

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Barnett is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 723rd, in 1899.

Rank in 2024: —fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024: 0not in the data
Peak year: 192336 births
Best rank: #723in 1899
Since 1880: 1,279people given the name

Babies named Barnett, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

1,279 boys have been named Barnett in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 36 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 36 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Barnett
1880s	5
1890s	31
1900s	27
1910s	215
1920s	232
1930s	163
1940s	210
1950s	172
1960s	103
1970s	44
1980s	51
1990s	11
2000s	5
2010s	10

In 1923, its biggest year

Barnett was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1923 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1923.

Names that rose and fell with Barnett

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.