Barney
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#12,274
down −2,243 places
2025 births
5
down −2 births
All-time births
16,090
0% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1919
- 304 births
- Best rank
- #202
- in 1887
- First recorded
- 1880
- #249 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1938
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 134 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1919304#319Peak
- 1918299#331
- 1917298#308
- 1953297#402
- 1921289#352
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #202 in 1887 · peak births 304 in 1919
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
16,090 boys · 91 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 Barney has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.