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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Barber

Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

18

peak year 1920

More common than

34%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1920
7 births
Best rank
#2,856
in 1913
First recorded
1913
#2,856 that year
Last recorded
1932
no later published record
Average birth year
1922
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
3 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19207#3,515Peak
  2. 19326#3,396
  3. 19135#2,856

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,856 in 1913 · peak births 7 in 1920

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 78% boys■ 22% girls

18 boys · 5 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 Barber has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.