Bary
Bary was last recorded in 1982, when 6 babies were given it; 299 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,692, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1961, the peak
Bary peaked in 1961, when 15 boys were given it, #2,152 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 6 | #5,692 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,581 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,598 | 4.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,689 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,053 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,909 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,333 | 4.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,788 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,635 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,566 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 15 | #2,124 | 7.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,872 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 15 | #2,120 | 7.3 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,152 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,323 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,205 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,838 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,840 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,507 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,443 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,462 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,926 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,116 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,086 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,446 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,465 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,345 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,394 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,565 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,580 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,481 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,571 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,725 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bary has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bary, and how old are they?
An estimated 209 Americans named Bary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 60 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 414 people named Bary (20 women and girls, 394 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Bary?
Bary is a less common spelling of Barry: SSA has recorded 299 Bary and 182,036 Barry since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 183,443 babies since 1880, Bary is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 172 babies recorded by SSA was a Bary (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Bary
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 Bary and names like it
- Compare Bary and BarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBary peaked in 1961.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Bary.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Bary alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.