girls:
5 births since 1949
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
641 births since 1892
#3945 (14th percentile)
overall:
646 births since 1892
#7093 (8th percentile)
The name Barnie is the #7,093 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 646 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 8.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,945 (13.9% percentile) for all time with 641 births since 1892. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1949.
Barnie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (1892 for boys and 1949 for girls). Birth data for Barnie is available in 62 out of the 81 years between 1892 and 1972 (62 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Barnie has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Barnie reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #521) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 56 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1972.
For girls, Barnie reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #679) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1949.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Barnie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Barnie is pronounced as BAHR-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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