Barrie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Barrie

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,708 babies named Barrie between 1930 and 2002, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Barrie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 117 babies received it in a single year. Barrie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,337 additional births since 1924.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Barrie performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 676 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Barrie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 244 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Barrie in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Barrie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,708 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.