Last Name BARNS

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Meaning	Local: At the barn, from residence thereby or nickname 'the bairn.' 'Barne' means a child. If local, Barnes takes a patronymic 's' like other monosyllabic local surnames: Styles, Brooks, Sykes, etc.

Origin	English, Irish

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