Barclay
Barclay was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 978 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barclay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Barclay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,945, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1970, the peak
Barclay peaked in 1970, when 31 babies were given it (26 boys, #1,706 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #10,945 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,375 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,407 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,951 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,975 | 3.5 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,652 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,539 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,730 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,804 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,665 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 9 | #6,026 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,884 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,483 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,797 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,498 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,551 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,872 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,275 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,926 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,260 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,666 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,840 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,017 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,246 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 15 | #2,983 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,622 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,634 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,373 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,230 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,403 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,514 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,085 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,681 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,091 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,435 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 21 | #1,990 | 11.9 |
| 1970 | 26 | #1,706 | 14.0 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,811 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,113 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,784 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,052 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,633 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,306 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,681 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,515 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,911 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,105 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,307 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 18 | #1,899 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,649 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,372 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,219 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,216 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,292 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,859 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 15 | #1,979 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,032 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,030 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,561 | 12.5 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,369 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,545 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,761 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,199 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,767 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,722 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,826 | 12.2 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,896 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,170 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,090 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,213 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,173 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,288 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,030 | 12.6 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,554 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,331 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,489 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,621 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,783 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,862 | 8.1 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,738 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,173 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,780 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,816 | 9.2 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,515 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,203 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,557 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,747 | 9.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,429 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,948 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 9 | #1,958 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,296 | 14.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Barclay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 978 Americans recorded as Barclay, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Barclay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barclay, and how old are they?
An estimated 620 Americans named Barclay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 41 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 798 people named Barclay (123 women and girls, 675 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 675 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,301 babies since 1880, Barclay is the most given (75% of them).
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 Barclay
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 Barclay and names like it
- Compare Barclay and BarkleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBarclay peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Barclay since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Barclay.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Barclay alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.