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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Barry” in the USA?

Number of people named “Barry” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Barry” 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 “Barry” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Barry” by birth year

This chart shows how “Barry” 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
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1884 8 0.000032859 8 -100%
1885 8 0.000033215 8 -100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 -100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 -100%
1893 9 0.000027673 9 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1899 8 0.000023583 8 -100%
1900 10 0.000022209 10 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1903 9 0.00002361 9 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1906 11 0.000025674 11 -100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 -100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 -100%
1909 13 0.000025429 13 -100%
1910 15 0.000025393 15 -100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 -100%
1912 20 0.000020242 20 -100%
1913 14 0.000012312 14 -100%
1914 33 0.000023299 33 -100%
1915 34 0.000018555 34 -100%
1916 19 0.000009822 19 -100%
1917 28 0.000013953 28 -100%
1918 41 0.000018884 41 -100%
1919 32 0.000015164 32 -100%
1920 28 0.000012375 28 -100%
1921 38 0.000016278 38 -100%
1922 36 0.000015726 36 -100%
1923 54 0.000023453 54 -100%
1924 52 0.000021834 52 -100%
1925 69 0.000029572 69 -100%
1926 78 0.000033974 78 -100%
1927 98 0.000042253 98 -100%
1928 141 0.000062363 141 -100%
1929 147 0.000067057 147 -100%
1930 240 0.000107948 240 -100%
1931 304 0.00014446 5 299 -97%
1932 513 0.000242979 513 -100%
1933 490 0.000245068 490 -100%
1934 523 0.000251828 523 -100%
1935 736 0.00035217 7 729 -98%
1936 706 0.000339819 706 -100%
1937 731 0.000343085 5 726 -99%
1938 1052 0.000475464 10 1042 -98%
1939 1376 0.000624478 1376 -100%
1940 1843 0.00080037 7 1836 -99%
1941 2476 0.001016243 12 2464 -99%
1942 3223 0.0011798 14 3209 -99%
1943 3215 0.001139037 22 3193 -99%
1944 2988 0.001110748 9 2979 -99%
1945 3152 0.001188129 14 3138 -99%
1946 4641 0.001452443 17 4624 -99%
1947 5493 0.00152485 21 5472 -99%
1948 4678 0.001354953 8 4670 -100%
1949 4623 0.001326628 16 4607 -99%
1950 4708 0.001343854 15 4693 -99%
1951 5302 0.001439299 18 5284 -99%
1952 5529 0.001455764 24 5505 -99%
1953 5194 0.001347815 13 5181 -99%
1954 5863 0.001472854 19 5844 -99%
1955 5619 0.001399474 19 5600 -99%
1956 6008 0.001457178 21 5987 -99%
1957 5814 0.00138358 24 5790 -99%
1958 5345 0.001292967 19 5326 -99%
1959 5626 0.001353057 24 5602 -99%
1960 5760 0.001386677 26 5734 -99%
1961 6234 0.001504961 17 6217 -99%
1962 6610 0.001638015 26 6584 -99%
1963 5985 0.001512051 32 5953 -99%
1964 5383 0.001384657 16 5367 -99%
1965 4342 0.001197645 17 4325 -99%
1966 3943 0.001134462 26 3917 -99%
1967 3227 0.000950544 18 3209 -99%
1968 2866 0.000848327 12 2854 -99%
1969 3075 0.00088481 15 3060 -99%
1970 2811 0.000779423 14 2797 -99%
1971 2372 0.000691071 13 2359 -99%
1972 1767 0.000562203 15 1752 -98%
1973 1529 0.000506814 13 1516 -98%
1974 1571 0.000516776 8 1563 -99%
1975 1481 0.000490496 1481 -100%
1976 1428 0.000470619 7 1421 -99%
1977 1468 0.000462145 10 1458 -99%
1978 1512 0.00047639 13 1499 -98%
1979 1413 0.000424707 12 1401 -98%
1980 1409 0.000409057 13 1396 -98%
1981 1352 0.000390822 5 1347 -99%
1982 1191 0.000339513 8 1183 -99%
1983 1005 0.000290182 12 993 -98%
1984 970 0.000278036 7 963 -99%
1985 975 0.000273177 9 966 -98%
1986 859 0.00024149 7 852 -98%
1987 802 0.000222431 11 791 -97%
1988 739 0.000199998 6 733 -98%
1989 705 0.000183381 5 700 -99%
1990 698 0.000176598 5 693 -99%
1991 587 0.000150696 587 -100%
1992 479 0.000124698 5 474 -98%
1993 484 0.000128372 484 -100%
1994 409 0.000110016 409 -100%
1995 353 0.000096391 353 -100%
1996 340 0.000093222 340 -100%
1997 316 0.000087154 316 -100%
1998 301 0.000081833 301 -100%
1999 267 0.000072282 267 -100%
2000 263 0.000069578 263 -100%
2001 210 0.000056099 210 -100%
2002 193 0.000051628 193 -100%
2003 199 0.000052336 199 -100%
2004 175 0.0000458 175 -100%
2005 157 0.000040834 157 -100%
2006 169 0.000042718 169 -100%
2007 159 0.000039773 159 -100%
2008 157 0.000039942 157 -100%
2009 149 0.000039003 149 -100%
2010 120 0.00003247 120 -100%
2011 119 0.000032533 119 -100%
2012 113 0.000030897 113 -100%
2013 102 0.000027978 102 -100%
2014 124 0.000033456 124 -100%
2015 142 0.000038369 142 -100%
2016 170 0.000046338 170 -100%
2017 136 0.000038029 136 -100%
2018 155 0.000044085 155 -100%
2019 144 0.000041487 144 -100%
2020 134 0.000040113 134 -100%
2021 121 0.000035715 121 -100%
2022 124 0.000036652 124 -100%
2023 104 0.000031409 104 -100%
2024 130 0.000039057 130 -100%

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