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The BARNABA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 356 54269 0 1
United States (1880 census) 7 95422 0 0
Change since 1880 +349 +41153 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 18 57417 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BARNABA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 48 11627 0.001 9
Texas 48 27572 0.000 2
New York 46 38650 0.000 2
Louisiana 35 12144 0.001 8
California 25 79574 0.000 1
Top States for BARNABA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 48 11627 0.001 9
Louisiana 35 12144 0.001 8
Oklahoma 11 24199 0.000 3
New Jersey 25 39007 0.000 3
South Carolina 11 23548 0.000 3

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BARNABA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BARNABA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BARNABA in Maryland than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BARNABA by picking someone at random in Maryland than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BARNABA

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BARNABA surname.

Ethnic distribution of BARNABA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 268 75.28
Black/African American 71 19.94
White (Hispanic) 12 3.37
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BARNABA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

BARNABA is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BARNABA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BARNABA.

Similar names to BARNABA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BARNABA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BARNABA

The following words are slight variants of BARNABA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.