Barrington
Barrington was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,250 among boys’ names; 1,281 Americans have been recorded with it since 1928 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Barrington and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 23 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Barrington by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Barrington?
#7,250 among boys’ names, 2025
Barrington fell from #6,366 in 2015 to #7,250 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 6.4 per million.
43 babies in 1991, the peak
Barrington peaked in 1991, when 43 boys were given it, #1,822 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,250 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,832 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,871 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,062 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,091 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,229 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,682 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,829 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,581 | 8.4 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,366 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #6,676 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,422 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,604 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,056 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,857 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,121 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,430 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,938 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,327 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,256 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,268 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,292 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,332 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,494 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,213 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,849 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,791 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 25 | #2,985 | 13.3 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,299 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,294 | 17.9 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,347 | 17.1 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,402 | 15.8 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,838 | 12.0 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,822 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,256 | 15.1 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,153 | 16.0 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,905 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,019 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,793 | 18.5 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,606 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 33 | #1,725 | 18.3 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,278 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,707 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,273 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 25 | #2,116 | 14.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,374 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,207 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,217 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,613 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,087 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,143 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,552 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,174 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #2,987 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,546 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,426 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,924 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,260 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,005 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,375 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,068 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,065 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,199 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,151 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,214 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,673 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,517 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,593 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,373 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,578 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,293 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,396 | 3.1 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,787 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,122 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,109 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,038 | 8.0 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,250 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,724 | 5.8 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,139 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,563 | 4.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,304 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,332 | 10.5 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,737 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Barrington a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Barrington has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Barrington: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Barrington, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 1,281 Americans ever recorded as Barrington. The median Barrington alive today is 35 years old; half are between 23 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,956 people named Barrington (19 women and girls, 1,937 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,119 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 113 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 172 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 432 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 263 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 150 |
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 Barrington born?
The states with the most babies named Barrington are New York, Florida and California, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 193 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Florida | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 21 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| District of Columbia | 10 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Barrington is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Barrington is most over-represented in New York: since 1928 it was given 2.1 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 boys’ 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 Barrington with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Barrington
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 Barrington and names like it
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Barrington since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Barrington.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Barrington alive today were born 1981-1996.
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