Barrie
Barrie was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 3,045 Americans have been recorded with it between 1924 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Barrie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 55 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barrie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Barrie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Barrie is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Barrie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,835, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
147 babies in 1961, the peak
Barrie peaked in 1961, when 147 babies were given it (117 girls, #1,002 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #12,580 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,835 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,734 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,263 | 6 | #8,220 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,641 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,687 | 5 | #8,904 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,724 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,121 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,469 | 6 | #7,346 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,349 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 12 | #6,575 | 10 | #4,838 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,750 | 12 | #3,927 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,629 | 6 | #6,159 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,205 | 8 | #4,886 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,880 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,621 | 5 | #6,407 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,490 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,182 | 6 | #5,691 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,360 | 10 | #3,879 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,339 | 8 | #4,534 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,642 | 13 | #3,186 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,268 | 8 | #4,185 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,446 | 9 | #3,863 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,642 | 11 | #3,282 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,883 | 12 | #3,086 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,323 | 6 | #4,687 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,351 | 9 | #3,472 |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,981 | 7 | #4,003 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,809 | 10 | #3,164 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,203 | 11 | #2,908 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,835 | 16 | #2,136 |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,942 | 16 | #2,038 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,923 | 9 | #2,785 |
| 1966 | 59 | #1,430 | 12 | #2,338 |
| 1965 | 55 | #1,501 | 16 | #1,989 |
| 1964 | 67 | #1,373 | 18 | #1,904 |
| 1963 | 70 | #1,320 | 28 | #1,486 |
| 1962 | 79 | #1,235 | 28 | #1,478 |
| 1961 | 117 | #1,002 | 30 | #1,466 |
| 1960 | 109 | #1,028 | 24 | #1,657 |
| 1959 | 82 | #1,174 | 22 | #1,720 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,759 | 22 | #1,680 |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,948 | 20 | #1,794 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,506 | 17 | #1,951 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,478 | 23 | #1,612 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,520 | 27 | #1,467 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,366 | 31 | #1,358 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,582 | 27 | #1,461 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,125 | 28 | #1,408 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,546 | 23 | #1,537 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,887 | 32 | #1,278 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,902 | 31 | #1,297 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,577 | 52 | #983 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,621 | 56 | #879 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,278 | 34 | #1,121 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,548 | 28 | #1,255 |
| 1943 | 44 | #1,212 | 48 | #970 |
| 1942 | 48 | #1,139 | 58 | #859 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,699 | 42 | #987 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,041 | 46 | #941 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,046 | 42 | #979 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,954 | 28 | #1,250 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,205 | 23 | #1,407 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,536 | 30 | #1,207 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,448 | 28 | #1,273 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,340 | 24 | #1,389 |
| 1933 | under 5 | 18 | #1,649 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 15 | #1,928 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 19 | #1,644 | |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,082 | 13 | #2,191 |
| 1929 | under 5 | 17 | #1,852 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 8 | #3,099 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 9 | #2,923 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #3,769 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 10 | #2,830 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Barrie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,045 Americans recorded as Barrie, 56% are girls and 44% boys. Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Barrie every year since 1959.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Barrie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barrie, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 68% of the 3,045 Americans ever recorded as Barrie. The median Barrie alive today is 64 years old; half are between 55 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 2,592 people named Barrie (1,512 women and girls, 1,080 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,306 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 247 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 983 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 559 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 247 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 24 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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).
Where are babies named Barrie born?
The states with the most babies named Barrie are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 334 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 136 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 120 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 36 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 14 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Barrie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Barrie is most over-represented in New York: since 1924 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Barrie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,560 babies since 1880, Barrie is the most given (55% of them).
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 Barrie and names like it
- Compare Barrie and BariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBarrie peaked in 1961.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Barrie since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Barrie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Barrie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.