Barnes

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Barnes

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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”).

Barnes (countable and uncountable, plural Barneses)

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