Unisex name · since 1996
Bar
27 babies named Bar in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2011. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #26,578 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 27
- born since 1996
- 2010s
- peak decade
Bar is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 27 have been recorded since 1996.
Bar has 27 recorded births among boys since 1996, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1996 to 2020.
- #26,578 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 27 born since 1996
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Bar ranks #26,578 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 27 born since 1996, peaking in the 2010s.
- #26,578 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 27
- born since 1996
- 2010s
- peak decade
Bar's 27 recorded births place it above 41.01% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Bar's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Bar splits its recorded history at 2011: 63% of all births land in the more recent half, 37% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1996 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2011 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Bar popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–2020
- Peak year (2011)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 25 years of records
Bar popularity over time - girls
23 total births recorded since 2006 (Bar as girls' name)
Bar by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (17 births, 63% of the file).
2010s was Bar's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Bar births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
17 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 17 births (63% of all-time use).
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What to do with Bar's data
- Bar's decade-level peak was the 2010s (17 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Bar: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~24 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1996–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Bar draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.