Barbra — girls' name

What the Data Says About Barbra

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,758 babies named Barbra between 1882 and 2014, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Barbra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1966, when 343 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Barbra performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 1,890 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Barbra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 515 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Barbra in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Barbra 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 7,758 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.