Barre
Barre was last recorded in 1961, when 7 babies were given it; 75 Americans have been recorded with it between 1940 and 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barre by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Barre?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,376, in 1961; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1955, the peak
Barre peaked in 1955, when 9 boys were given it, #2,777 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7 | #3,376 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,591 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,777 | 4.4 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,115 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,857 | 4.2 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,335 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,344 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,200 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,369 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,464 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 5 | #3,584 | 3.5 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,487 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Barre a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Barre has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Barre: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barre, and how old are they?
An estimated 42 Americans named Barre and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 172 people named Barre (30 women and girls, 142 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 50 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Barre rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 182,635 babies since 1880, Barre is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 126 babies recorded by SSA was a Barre (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.
More about Barre and names like it
- Compare Barre and BarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBarre peaked in 1955.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Barre since 1910.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Barre.
- Names starting with BMost given first.