Baraa
#6,850 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Baraa has been given to 225 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #6,850 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.
Babies named Baraa, 2025
1 in 276,000
Baraa 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Baraa over time
In 2025, Baraa went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Baraa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,850
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Baraa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baraa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Baraas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Baraa was born before 2014 — so the typical Baraa is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 187
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (78).
Is Baraa 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
- −344
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,903
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,829
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.71×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 85.7%
- Peak was 2017 (14)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.4% average annual change
Spellings of Baraa
Baraa is not the most common spelling — Barry is, with 53.9% against Baraa's 0.06%.
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.
Baraa around the world
Where Baraa 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 & Wales2008–2025#2,664in 2025
- France2010–2025#3,474in 2025
- Canada2010–2022#2,959in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Baraa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Baraa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Baraa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.