Barabra
Barabra was last recorded in 1969, when 5 babies were given it; 54 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barabra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Barabra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,559, in 1969; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1953, the peak
Barabra peaked in 1953, when 8 girls were given it, #4,256 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 5 | #7,559 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,310 | 3.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,059 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,646 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,896 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,748 | 3.0 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,256 | 4.3 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,234 | 4.3 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,839 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Barabra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Barabra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Barabra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barabra, and how old are they?
An estimated 41 Americans named Barabra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 574 people named Barabra (571 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 45 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12.8 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 1,448,988 babies since 1880, Barabra is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 264 babies recorded by SSA was a Barabra (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Barabra and names like it
- Compare Barabra and BarbaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBarabra peaked in 1953.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Barabra.
- Names starting with BMost given first.