Barnaby Family History
- Barnaby Name Meaning
- from the Middle English vernacular form of the personal name Barnabas, which was borne by the companion of St Paul (Acts 4:36). This is of Aramaic origin, from Barnabia ‘son of Nabia’, a personal name perhaps meaning ‘confession’. habitational name from Barnaby in North Yorkshire, named with the Old English personal name Beornwald (composed of the elements beorn ‘young warrior’ + wald ‘rule’) + Old Norse býr ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 148,184 Historical Documents with Barnaby on Ancestry
- 39,070 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,592 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,293 Military Records
- 2,157 Immigration Records
- 80,072 Member Trees
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Number of Barnaby families
 56 - 109  19 - 55 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barnaby families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Barnaby census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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