Barret
Barret was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,669 among boys’ names; 1,389 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Barret and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 13 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barret by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Barret mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Barret is “a male given name from French.”
Spelling variant of Barrett
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Barret?
#3,669 among boys’ names, 2025
Barret fell from #3,518 in 2015 to #3,669 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 16.2 to 17.6 per million.
40 babies in 2019, the peak
Barret peaked in 2019, when 40 boys were given it, #2,996 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,669 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,451 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,761 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,892 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,648 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,148 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 40 | #2,996 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,796 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,315 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,786 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,518 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,272 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,063 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,876 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 18 | #4,994 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,065 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,765 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,744 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,388 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,530 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,307 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,430 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,289 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,924 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,405 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,798 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,591 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,216 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,906 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,026 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,434 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,216 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,944 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,005 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,820 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,213 | 15.6 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,541 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,304 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,018 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,792 | 18.5 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,919 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,042 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 39 | #1,537 | 21.8 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,568 | 21.5 |
| 1981 | 36 | #1,632 | 20.1 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,219 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,160 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,944 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,467 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,784 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 30 | #1,660 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,469 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,408 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,333 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,370 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,545 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,332 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,180 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,259 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,562 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,485 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,089 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,338 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,060 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,109 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,688 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Barret a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Barret has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Barret: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barret, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,389 Americans ever recorded as Barret. The median Barret alive today is 29 years old; half are between 13 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,269 people named Barret (51 women and girls, 1,218 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 24 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 219 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 418 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 364 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 52,460 babies since 1880, Barret is the third most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 2,208 babies (1.4%), the second 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Barret
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 Barret and names like it
- Compare Barret and BarrettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBarret peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Barret since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Barret: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Barret.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Barret alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.