Barney
149
Babies in 2024
+59%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 195
-4%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Barney
Barney appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #298 with 149 boys registered in England & Wales.
Barney reached its peak in 2021, when 195 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #246 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 149 represents 76% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 2,372 boys have been officially registered with the name Barney in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,403 boys were registered with the name, starting from 94 in 2014 and ending at 149 in 2024.