Barbara
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#968
down −115 places
2025 births
264
down −53 births
All-time births
1,436,695
0% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1947
- 48,800 births
- Best rank
- #2
- in 1937
- First recorded
- 1880
- #128 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1947
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 194748,800#4Peak
- 194846,826#3
- 194645,126#4
- 194244,739#2
- 194343,432#2
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #2 in 1937 · peak births 48,800 in 1947
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
4,136 boys · 1,436,695 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Barbara has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.