Baraka — #5492 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Baraka

The Social Security Administration has registered 369 babies named Baraka between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Baraka currently holds the #5492 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Baraka is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 23 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Baraka performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 109 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Baraka shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Baraka in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Baraka in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 369 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.