Barney

girls:

91 births since 1916

#5625 (2nd percentile)

boys:

16.1k births since 1880

#914 (80th percentile)

overall:

16.2k births since 1880

#2037 (74th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Barney".

1880 2020 18802020

Key Statistics

Total Births
91
Peak Births
8
Peak Year
1923
First Recorded
1916
Peak Percentile
0.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#571
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
16,077
Peak Births
304
Peak Year
1919
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
46.4%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#151
Current Rank
#901
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Barney

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Barney. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Barney is pronounced as BAHR-nee.

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100.0%
BAHR-nee (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
B AA1 R N IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Barney. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Barney, please vote using the thumbs up button.

BAH-nee (2 syllables)
8 names 340.5k births
B AA1 N IY0
BER-nee (2 syllables)
7 names 12.8k births
B ER1 N IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B AA1 R N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.