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“prophet’s son”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Barnabe is a masculine given name documented in English. It is a form of Barnabé, for which English Wiktionary gives the meaning “prophet’s son”.
Separate records with matching spellings: Barnabé (French, Norman), Barnabë (Gallo)
Meaning: “prophet’s son”
No etymology text in the cited sources.
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03 / By the numbers
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1900–2025 Spelling: BARNABE
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 10 | 360 | rounded |
| 1901 | 10 | 398 | rounded |
| 1902 | 10 | 416 | rounded |
| 1903 | 5 | 458 | rounded |
| 1904 | 10 | 406 | rounded |
| 1905 | 5 | 602 | rounded |
| 1906 | 10 | 386 | rounded |
| 1907 | 10 | 424 | rounded |
| 1908 | 10 | 390 | rounded |
| 1909 | 15 | 340 | rounded |
| 1910 | 5 | 489 | rounded |
| 1911 | 15 | 347 | rounded |
| 1912 | 15 | 350 | rounded |
| 1913 | 15 | 377 | rounded |
| 1914 | 10 | 466 | rounded |
| 1915 | 15 | 312 | rounded |
| 1916 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1917 | 5 | 423 | rounded |
| 1918 | 10 | 370 | rounded |
| 1919 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1920 | 10 | 380 | rounded |
| 1921 | 15 | 343 | rounded |
| 1922 | 5 | 819 | rounded |
| 1923 | 10 | 402 | rounded |
| 1924 | 5 | 704 | rounded |
| 1925 | 10 | 527 | rounded |
| 1926 | 10 | 575 | rounded |
| 1927 | 15 | 393 | rounded |
| 1928 | 15 | 413 | rounded |
| 1929 | 10 | 499 | rounded |
| 1930 | 10 | 472 | rounded |
| 1931 | 15 | 394 | rounded |
| 1932 | 10 | 553 | rounded |
| 1933 | 10 | 477 | rounded |
| 1934 | 5 | 546 | rounded |
| 1935 | 15 | 338 | rounded |
| 1936 | 5 | 731 | rounded |
| 1937 | 15 | 377 | rounded |
| 1938 | 15 | 328 | rounded |
| 1939 | 10 | 476 | rounded |
| 1940 | 5 | 497 | rounded |
| 1941 | 10 | 406 | rounded |
| 1942 | 5 | 715 | rounded |
| 1943 | 10 | 444 | rounded |
| 1944 | 5 | 507 | rounded |
| 1945 | 10 | 403 | rounded |
| 1946 | 10 | 474 | rounded |
| 1947 | 10 | 453 | rounded |
| 1948 | 10 | 544 | rounded |
| 1949 | 10 | 480 | rounded |
| 1950 | 5 | 825 | rounded |
| 1951 | 10 | 563 | rounded |
| 1952 | 5 | 633 | rounded |
| 1953 | 5 | 673 | rounded |
| 1954 | 15 | 441 | rounded |
| 1955 | 5 | 874 | rounded |
| 1956 | 5 | 874 | rounded |
| 1957 | 5 | 931 | rounded |
| 1958 | 5 | 1,052 | rounded |
| 1959 | 5 | 923 | rounded |
| 1960 | 5 | 1,591 | rounded |
| 1961 | 5 | 1,256 | rounded |
| 1962 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1963 | 5 | 1,412 | rounded |
| 1964 | 5 | 1,170 | rounded |
| 1965 | 5 | 1,037 | rounded |
| 1966 | 10 | 728 | rounded |
| 1967 | 10 | 882 | rounded |
| 1968 | 15 | 721 | rounded |
| 1969 | 10 | 884 | rounded |
| 1970 | 10 | 914 | rounded |
| 1971 | 10 | 995 | rounded |
| 1972 | 5 | 1,297 | rounded |
| 1973 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1974 | 10 | 997 | rounded |
| 1975 | 5 | 1,351 | rounded |
| 1976 | 5 | 1,568 | rounded |
| 1977 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1978 | 5 | 1,843 | rounded |
| 1979 | 5 | 2,569 | rounded |
| 1980 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1981 | 5 | 1,947 | rounded |
| 1982 | 5 | 2,091 | rounded |
| 1983 | 5 | 1,865 | rounded |
| 1984 | 10 | 1,334 | rounded |
| 1985 | 10 | 1,194 | rounded |
| 1986 | 10 | 1,236 | rounded |
| 1987 | 15 | 1,000 | rounded |
| 1988 | 15 | 956 | rounded |
| 1989 | 15 | 1,009 | rounded |
| 1990 | 15 | 1,027 | rounded |
| 1991 | 15 | 1,032 | rounded |
| 1992 | 15 | 1,139 | rounded |
| 1993 | 15 | 1,165 | rounded |
| 1994 | 15 | 1,183 | rounded |
| 1995 | 10 | 1,315 | rounded |
| 1996 | 15 | 1,248 | rounded |
| 1997 | 20 | 1,036 | rounded |
| 1998 | 40 | 688 | rounded |
| 1999 | 30 | 788 | rounded |
| 2000 | 40 | 733 | rounded |
| 2001 | 40 | 728 | rounded |
| 2002 | 35 | 847 | rounded |
| 2003 | 35 | 841 | rounded |
| 2004 | 40 | 813 | rounded |
| 2005 | 50 | 708 | rounded |
| 2006 | 55 | 732 | rounded |
| 2007 | 40 | 911 | rounded |
| 2008 | 40 | 965 | rounded |
| 2009 | 40 | 924 | rounded |
| 2010 | 45 | 970 | rounded |
| 2011 | 10 | 2,248 | rounded |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,190 | rounded |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | 5 | 4,180 | rounded |
| 2015 | 5 | 6,628 | rounded |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “BARNABE” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Barnabé— “son of consolation”
Barnabé, _m._ _Fr._ Heb. son of consolation, 24
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
