Bari — #12248 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Bari

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,806 babies named Bari between 1937 and 2024, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bari currently holds the #12248 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 78 babies received it in a single year. Bari is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 158 additional births since 1942.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bari performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 507 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Bari shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 459 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Bari in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bari 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 1,806 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.