Barney vs Ruby

Barney

name
  • A city and village in North Dakota. 

  • A surname from Old English based on the given names, or from the place name Barney, Old English "barn/barley island". 

  • A diminutive of the male given names Barnabas, Bernard, or Barnett. 

  • A male given name transferred from the surname, and a diminutive of Barnabas, Barnaby, Bernard, or Barnett. 

  • A village in Norfolk, England. 

Ruby

name
  • A town in Wisconsin. 

  • A male given name. 

  • A female given name from English. 

  • A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s. 

  • A surname. 

  • A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. 

  • A town in South Carolina. 

  • A ghost town in Arizona 

  • A city in Alaska. 

noun
  • A curry; Short for Ruby Murray. 

How often have the words Barney and Ruby occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )