How popular is “Barbara” in the USA?

Number of people named “Barbara” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Barbara” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Barbara” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Barbara” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Barbara” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Barbara” by birth year

This chart shows how “Barbara” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	127	0.000630323	127		100%
1881	130	0.000674666	130		100%
1882	130	0.00058682	130		100%
1883	135	0.000622275	135		100%
1884	193	0.000792735	193		100%
1885	195	0.000809619	195		100%
1886	207	0.00081076	207		100%
1887	204	0.000824602	204		100%
1888	253	0.000844815	253		100%
1889	246	0.00085137	246		100%
1890	241	0.000799599	241		100%
1891	221	0.000770913	221		100%
1892	278	0.000831404	278		100%
1893	255	0.000784077	255		100%
1894	290	0.00085624	290		100%
1895	298	0.000848954	298		100%
1896	324	0.000906334	324		100%
1897	299	0.000861778	299		100%
1898	304	0.000796949	304		100%
1899	273	0.000804754	273		100%
1900	338	0.000750681	338		100%
1901	277	0.000801013	277		100%
1902	306	0.000791244	306		100%
1903	346	0.00090766	346		100%
1904	357	0.000884791	357		100%
1905	366	0.000863366	366		100%
1906	413	0.000963938	413		100%
1907	515	0.001106599	515		100%
1908	514	0.00105188	514		100%
1909	567	0.001109103	567		100%
1910	612	0.00103604	612		100%
1911	737	0.001143916	737		100%
1912	1184	0.001198305	1184		100%
1913	1458	0.001282198	1451	7	99%
1914	2061	0.001455155	2061		100%
1915	2704	0.001475639	2704		100%
1916	3117	0.001611338	3112	5	100%
1917	3541	0.001764545	3535	6	100%
1918	4231	0.001948772	4224	7	100%
1919	4091	0.001938637	4084	7	100%
1920	5115	0.00226063	5106	9	100%
1921	6024	0.002580418	6013	11	100%
1922	6282	0.002744243	6272	10	100%
1923	7219	0.003135314	7209	10	100%
1924	8317	0.003492175	8305	12	100%
1925	9181	0.003934767	9155	26	99%
1926	11114	0.004840793	11079	35	99%
1927	13202	0.005692092	13161	41	99%
1928	14916	0.006597262	14872	44	99%
1929	16101	0.007344807	16038	63	99%
1930	18354	0.008255341	18280	74	99%
1931	21887	0.010400648	21803	84	99%
1932	26421	0.012514144	26318	103	99%
1933	27068	0.013537743	26949	119	99%
1934	29357	0.014135581	29239	118	99%
1935	30821	0.014747595	30697	124	99%
1936	31792	0.015302434	31682	110	99%
1937	35061	0.016455388	34917	144	99%
1938	39439	0.01782494	39277	162	99%
1939	37407	0.016976621	37257	150	99%
1940	36875	0.016013915	36735	140	99%
1941	39698	0.016293544	39543	155	99%
1942	44903	0.016437039	44739	164	99%
1943	43582	0.015440598	43432	150	99%
1944	39317	0.014615556	39196	121	99%
1945	38361	0.01445997	38274	87	100%
1946	45234	0.014156386	45125	109	100%
1947	48889	0.013571524	48800	89	100%
1948	46900	0.013584289	46824	76	100%
1949	42666	0.012243542	42599	67	100%
1950	41625	0.011881458	41555	70	100%
1951	40689	0.01104557	40619	70	100%
1952	39937	0.010515258	39863	74	100%
1953	38546	0.010002481	38474	72	100%
1954	36426	0.009150634	36369	57	100%
1955	33696	0.008392361	33616	80	100%
1956	32377	0.007852707	32302	75	100%
1957	29759	0.007081863	29691	68	100%
1958	27936	0.006757777	27877	59	100%
1959	25424	0.00611449	25357	67	99%
1960	24519	0.005902767	24455	64	99%
1961	23054	0.005565506	22998	56	100%
1962	20717	0.005133851	20641	76	99%
1963	18359	0.004638219	18295	64	99%
1964	16532	0.00425249	16483	49	99%
1965	14065	0.003879519	14023	42	99%
1966	13168	0.003788638	13123	45	99%
1967	11247	0.003312913	11204	43	99%
1968	9775	0.00289337	9741	34	99%
1969	8842	0.002544224	8811	31	99%
1970	8050	0.002232072	8026	24	99%
1971	6481	0.001888208	6454	27	99%
1972	5101	0.001622975	5079	22	99%
1973	4445	0.001473373	4434	11	100%
1974	3918	0.001288816	3906	12	99%
1975	3472	0.0011499	3454	18	99%
1976	2977	0.000981116	2968	9	99%
1977	2861	0.000900679	2845	16	99%
1978	2587	0.000815093	2579	8	99%
1979	2508	0.000753832	2493	15	99%
1980	2590	0.000751922	2577	13	99%
1981	2545	0.000735682	2531	14	99%
1982	2359	0.00067247	2348	11	99%
1983	2029	0.000585851	2020	9	99%
1984	1884	0.000540021	1866	18	98%
1985	1688	0.000472947	1677	11	99%
1986	1496	0.00042057	1488	8	99%
1987	1641	0.000455124	1632	9	99%
1988	1515	0.000410009	1506	9	99%
1989	1503	0.000390954	1493	10	99%
1990	1393	0.000352437	1388	5	99%
1991	1248	0.000320389	1239	9	99%
1992	1135	0.000295475	1128	7	99%
1993	956	0.000253562	951	5	99%
1994	871	0.000234288	871		100%
1995	758	0.000206982	758		100%
1996	682	0.000186993	682		100%
1997	700	0.000193064	700		100%
1998	578	0.000157142	578		100%
1999	560	0.000151603	560		100%
2000	533	0.000141009	533		100%
2001	502	0.000134103	502		100%
2002	509	0.000136158	509		100%
2003	437	0.00011493	437		100%
2004	437	0.00011437	437		100%
2005	411	0.000106896	411		100%
2006	550	0.000139023	550		100%
2007	481	0.00012032	481		100%
2008	396	0.000100746	396		100%
2009	465	0.000121722	465		100%
2010	410	0.000110939	410		100%
2011	369	0.000100881	369		100%
2012	296	0.000080933	296		100%
2013	321	0.00008805	321		100%
2014	325	0.000087687	325		100%
2015	327	0.000088357	327		100%
2016	329	0.000089678	329		100%
2017	301	0.000084168	301		100%
2018	291	0.000082767	291		100%
2019	287	0.000082687	287		100%
2020	300	0.000089805	300		100%
2021	299	0.000088254	299		100%
2022	276	0.000081581	276		100%
2023	307	0.000092716	307		100%
2024	313	0.000094036	313		100%

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