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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Barry

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#1,520

down −107 places

2025 births

114

down −17 births

All-time births

181,270

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1962
6,585 births
Best rank
#61
in 1962
First recorded
1883
#903 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1960
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
134 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19626,585#61Peak
  2. 19616,220#66
  3. 19565,988#69
  4. 19635,953#67
  5. 19545,844#68

Rank over time

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

Best rank #61 in 1962 · peak births 6,585 in 1962

Boys and girls

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

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

181,270 boys · 766 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 Barry has ranked, decade by decade

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