Boys' name · since 2016

Barok

84 babies named Barok in U.S. Social Security records since 2016, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#18,524 of 45,481
all-time among boys
#6,406 of 13,930
2025 SSA year
84
born since 2016
2020s
peak decade

84 babies have been named Barok since 2016, making it today's #6406 boys' name.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Barok has been recorded 84 times among boys since 2016, currently ranked #6406 nationally and more common than 54% of boys, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2016 to 2025.

  • #18,524 of 45,481 all-time among boys
  • #6,406 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
  • 84 born since 2016
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Barok ranks #18,524 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #6,406 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 84 born since 2016, peaking in the 2020s.

#18,524 of 45,481
all-time among boys
#6,406 of 13,930
2025 SSA year
84
born since 2016
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%54%
Barok vs. every other boys name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Barok's 84 recorded births place it above 59.1% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Barok compares

84 23rd percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Barok's all-time total is 77% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Barok Median boys name (Takari) #1 boys name (Liam)
All-time total births 84 369 358,536
Peak-year births 14 34 22,252

Barok's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Splitting Barok's full recorded timeline at 2020, 60% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 40% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2016, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 14 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.

Barok popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2025)
14
Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
46810121416 201620172018201920202021202220242025 14

Barok by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (50 births, 60% of the file).

2020s was Barok's strongest decade.

50 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 60% of all-time use.

Barok births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 50 births (60% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Barok?
84 babies have been named Barok since 2016. All-time, it sits at #18,524 of 45,481 boys' names by recorded births. In 2025, it ranks #6,406 of 13,930 among boys. The peak year was 2025 with 14 births.
Where does Barok sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Barok ranks #18,524 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #6,406 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Barok most popular?
Barok was most popular in the 2020s decade with 50 total births. The single peak year was 2025.
How long has the name Barok been used?
Records for Barok go back to 2016, giving 10 years of history through 2025.
What names are similar to Barok?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Barry, Barrett, Bart, Barney, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for boys.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Barok: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2016–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Barok draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.