Last name: BARNEY
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BARNEY : This last name is indexed 66,008 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BARNEY : 1: English: habitational name from Barney in Norfolk which is probably named with an Old English personal name Bera (with genitive -n) + Old English ēg ‘island dry ground in a marsh’.2: English: from the personal name Barney a pet form of Bernard.3: Scottish: possibly from the Old Norse personal name Bjarni (from bjǫrn ‘bear’).4: In some cases also an Americanized form of French Bernier.
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