Barbie
Barbie was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,276 among girls’ names; 4,204 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,820 Americans named Barbie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 36 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barbie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Barbie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Barbie is “a diminutive of the female given name Barbara.”
From Barbara + -ie.
/ˈbɑɹbi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Barbie?
#4,276 among girls’ names, 2025
Barbie fell from #4,238 in 2015 to #4,276 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 19.0 to 20.5 per million.
190 babies in 1964, the peak
Barbie peaked in 1964, when 190 girls were given it, #756 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,276 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,128 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,202 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,922 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,889 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,899 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,084 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,811 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,594 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,754 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,238 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,340 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,856 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,501 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,937 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,205 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,957 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,907 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,968 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,408 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,037 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,081 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,099 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,783 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,599 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,162 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,532 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,972 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,387 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,797 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,468 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,021 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,681 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,776 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,447 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,692 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,573 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,871 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,663 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,055 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,364 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,020 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,909 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,737 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,515 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,583 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,555 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,487 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 94 | #1,268 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 89 | #1,253 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 83 | #1,316 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 76 | #1,364 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,378 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,263 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 105 | #1,118 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 118 | #1,042 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 97 | #1,124 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 121 | #939 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 163 | #771 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 118 | #929 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 121 | #915 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 190 | #756 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 170 | #796 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 152 | #855 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 132 | #937 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 82 | #1,198 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 68 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 62 | #1,339 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 45 | #1,613 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,057 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,157 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,124 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,301 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,129 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,065 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,348 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,419 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,194 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,285 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,399 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,071 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,397 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,055 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,204 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,590 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,895 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,939 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,472 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,243 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Barbie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Barbie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Barbie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barbie, and how old are they?
3,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 4,204 Americans ever recorded as Barbie. The median Barbie alive today is 52 years old; half are between 36 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 3,993 people named Barbie (3,974 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,733 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 37 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 942 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,440 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 605 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 379 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 419 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Barbie born?
The states with the most babies named Barbie are Pennsylvania, California and Texas, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 587 | #521 | 2.7× |
| California | 218 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 187 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 109 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 99 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 62 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 53 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 48 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 42 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Barbie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Barbie is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1936 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Barbie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,266 babies since 1880, Barbie is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 33 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Barbie
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 Barbie and names like it
- Compare Barbie and BarbiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBarbie peaked in 1964.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Barbie since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Barbie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Barbie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.