Barby
Barby was last recorded in 1988, when 5 babies were given it; 155 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Barby?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,989, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1959, the peak
Barby peaked in 1959, when 12 girls were given it, #3,629 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #11,989 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,360 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,231 | 4.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,084 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,492 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,855 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,062 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,287 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,336 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,898 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 12 | #3,629 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,450 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,714 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,927 | 5.0 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,688 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,827 | 4.9 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,711 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,700 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,788 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,004 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,617 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,154 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Barby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Barby has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Barby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barby, and how old are they?
An estimated 124 Americans named Barby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 60 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 228 people named Barby (219 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 134 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
How common is the spelling Barby?
Barby is a less common spelling of Barbie: SSA has recorded 155 Barby and 4,204 Barbie since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,266 babies since 1880, Barby is the fourth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 33 babies recorded by SSA was a Barby (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Barby
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 Barby and names like it
- Compare Barby and BarbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBarby peaked in 1959.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Barby.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Barby alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.