Barren
Barren was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,341 among boys’ names; 95 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Barren?
#8,341 among boys’ names, 2025
Barren entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,341 in 2025.
9 babies in 2021, the peak
Barren peaked in 2021, when 9 boys were given it, #8,254 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,341 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,986 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,579 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,254 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,838 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,788 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,934 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,784 | 3.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,351 | 2.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,975 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 5 | #4,179 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,009 | 2.9 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,088 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,063 | 3.9 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,074 | 2.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Barren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Barren has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Barren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barren, and how old are they?
An estimated 89 Americans named Barren 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 179 people named Barren (2 women and girls, 177 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 55 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 15,093 babies since 1880, Barren is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 540 babies (1.7%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Barren and names like it
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