I know someone who goes by
Barney and I don’t mind it. I don’t know when the nickname started but I’ve known him as
Barney ever since we first met 14 years ago. It stems from his last name which is Barnes.
His first name is a fairly nondescript average name for the time so I have wondered in the past if there was another boy with the same first name in his class at school and so he was known by his last name to tell them apart.
He and the purple dinosaur are the first things that spring to mind.