Give a stream of consciousness and then the final answer. Barnes is an English surname and rare given name. At the time of the British Census of 1881, the relative frequency of the surname Barnes was highest in Dorset (2.9 times the British average), followed by Wiltshire, Cumberland, Hampshire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire, Huntingdonshire, Lancashire and Sussex.

Answer this question: where does the last name barnes come from?
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To answer the above question, the relevant sentence is: Barnes is an English surname and rare given name.
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