barnes

The story

1. Hebrew · derived fromפַּרְנָס“leader of a Jewish community, provider”
2. Yiddish · derived fromפּרנס
3. Frankish · derived from*berō“bear”
4. Old English · derived fromBeorn
5. Old Norse · derived fromBjǫrn
6. English todayBarnes

* As an English surname, from the place on the bank of the Thames, derived from the root of the noun barn. * Also as an English surname, variant of Barne, from both a Middle English personal name from Old Norse Bjǫrn and Old English Beorn, and from the noun barn (“child”). Semantically compare Child. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), a byname from bior (“spear”). * As a French surname, variant of Bernes, from a short form of a Germanic name derived from Frankish *berō (“bear”), similar to Bernhard. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Parnes, from Yiddish פּרנס (prns), from Hebrew פַּרְנָס (“leader of a Jewish community, provider”).