Baran
Baran is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 12 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,438 among girls’ names and #6,851 among boys’, #9,118 among all names counting both); 295 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Baran mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Baran is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Baran?
#6,851 among boys’ names, 2025
Baran fell from #6,029 in 2015 to #6,851 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 7.0 per million.
24 babies in 2025, the peak
Baran peaked in 2025, when 24 babies were given it (12 boys, #6,851 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 11 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,438 | 12 | #6,851 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,358 | 11 | #7,312 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,703 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,665 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,740 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,375 | 7 | #9,678 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,601 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 9 | #8,235 | |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,821 | 13 | #6,363 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,633 | 10 | #7,657 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,004 | 14 | #6,029 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,112 | 10 | #7,608 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 8 | #8,881 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,713 | 9 | #8,219 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,152 | 5 | #12,488 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,414 | 9 | #8,208 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,068 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 13 | #6,429 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 9 | #8,247 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 9 | #8,056 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 10 | #7,162 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 9 | #7,583 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 8 | #7,915 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #9,508 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #10,054 |
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 Baran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 295 Americans recorded as Baran, 34% are girls and 66% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Baran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baran, and how old are they?
An estimated 292 Americans named Baran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 415 people named Baran (146 women and girls, 269 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 222 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 36,543 babies since 1880, Baran is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 874 babies (2.7%), the fifth 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 Baran
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 Baran and names like it
- Compare Baran and BrayanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBaran peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baran since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Baran: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Baran.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Baran alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.