Baraa
Baraa was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,850 among boys’ names; 225 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baraa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Baraa?
#6,850 among boys’ names, 2025
Baraa rose from #9,679 in 2015 to #6,850 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 7.0 per million.
16 babies in 2016, the peak
Baraa peaked in 2016, when 16 babies were given it (9 boys, #8,214 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 12 | #6,850 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 13 | #6,506 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #12,462 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 11 | #7,316 | |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,344 | 6 | #10,753 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,641 | 5 | #12,365 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #12,374 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 14 | #6,084 | |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,100 | 9 | #8,214 |
| 2015 | under 5 | 7 | #9,679 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 10 | #7,607 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 10 | #7,590 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #6,664 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,113 | 6 | #10,950 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 7 | #9,973 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,685 | 7 | #9,964 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #11,066 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #12,232 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 11 | #6,573 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 7 | #8,743 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 9 | #6,978 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #9,763 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,997 | 5 | #9,404 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Baraa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 225 Americans recorded as Baraa, 17% are girls and 83% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Baraa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baraa, and how old are they?
An estimated 223 Americans named Baraa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 480 people named Baraa (228 women and girls, 252 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 183,443 babies since 1880, Baraa is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 172 babies (7.0%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Baraa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Baraa and names like it
- Compare Baraa and BarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBaraa peaked in 2016.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Baraa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Baraa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.