Babara
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Babara has been given to 431 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1963, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Babara, 1989
1 in 768,000
Babara over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Babara?
Babara had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1989
- 1 in 768,000
- 5 of 3,842,268 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 368,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1989
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,653 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Babara sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,653 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Babara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Babaras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Babara was born before 1952 — so the typical Babara is around 73 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 24.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 242
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (107).
Is Babara rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1963 (20)
- Years since peak
- 62
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.4% average annual change
Spellings of Babara
Babara is not the most common spelling — Barbara is, with 86.4% against Babara's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Babara around the world
Where Babara ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1950–1950#436in 1950
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Babara by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Babara
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Babara
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.