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Bara

Boys' name

Variant of Barbora

Bara has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 1994, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Bara, 2017

1 in 715,000

Bara over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bara: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Barbora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bara means

Bara is a variant of Barbora.

Origin, language, and formation

Bara is used in Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Barbora.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovak, Bara is pronounced /bara/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Bara between 1994 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1994; its best national rank was #7,032 in 1994.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bara?

Bara had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 370,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bara sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Baras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bara was born before 2010 — so the typical Bara is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
58.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 58.8% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Bara 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (7)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,032
1994

Spellings of Bara

Bara is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 33.7% against Bara's <0.01%.

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.

Bara around the world

Where Bara 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.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • France
    1994–2025
    #5,176
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bara by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,032
1994
Peak year
1994
7 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bara

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BarukBarrBarlasBarisYaraBarokBarenBarNaraMaraBarucBarinBartoBarberBardoBarleyBarsbekBarriBaraaBaranLaraBarrenBartyBarny

Sibling names for Bara

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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