Baruch
Baruch was given to 62 boys in 2025, #2,260 among boys’ names; 1,954 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,870 Americans named Baruch and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 8 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baruch by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Baruch mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Baruch is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “blessed” (בָּרוּךְ).
Borrowed from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ (Barukh, “blessed”). Cognate with Arabic بَارَك (bārak, “Barak”).
/ˈbɛ ɹəx/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Baruch?
#2,260 among boys’ names, 2025
Baruch rose from #2,606 in 2015 to #2,260 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 24.5 to 36.3 per million.
76 babies in 2023, the peak
Baruch peaked in 2023, when 76 boys were given it, #1,998 among boys’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,260 | 36.3 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,192 | 38.3 |
| 2023 | 76 | #1,998 | 44.4 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,099 | 40.7 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,732 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,237 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,263 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,212 | 34.1 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,896 | 22.2 |
| 2016 | 46 | #2,662 | 24.2 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,606 | 24.5 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,463 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 48 | #2,532 | 25.4 |
| 2012 | 41 | #2,871 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,664 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,327 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,228 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,932 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 45 | #2,687 | 21.7 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,528 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,566 | 21.5 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,952 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,285 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,671 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,805 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,739 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 41 | #2,229 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,395 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,161 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,920 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,444 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,686 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,048 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,227 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,093 | 17.3 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,432 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,693 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,196 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,116 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,898 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,432 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,712 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,143 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,716 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,430 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,065 | 14.6 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,785 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,677 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,920 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,839 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,766 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,144 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,727 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,004 | 4.3 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,785 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,699 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,126 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,787 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,006 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #3,966 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,093 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,871 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,062 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,557 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,075 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,426 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 5 | #3,993 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,839 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,506 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,925 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,192 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,847 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,259 | 6.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,348 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,715 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,371 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Baruch a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Baruch has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Baruch: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baruch, and how old are they?
1,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,954 Americans ever recorded as Baruch. The median Baruch alive today is 19 years old; half are between 8 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,578 people named Baruch (7 women and girls, 1,571 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,525 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 80 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 158 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 357 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 561 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 707 |
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 Baruch born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 23 | #641 | 8.0× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #547 | 3.9× |
Where Baruch is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Baruch is most over-represented in New York: since 1945 it was given 8.0 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 Baruch 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,053 babies since 1880, Baruch is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 62 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Baruch
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 Baruch and names like it
- Compare Baruch and BrachBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBaruch peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baruch since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Baruch: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Baruch.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Baruch alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.