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Barack

#10,854 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Barack has been given to 312 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #10,854 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Barack, 2025

1 in 553,000

Barack over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Barack: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Barack means

Barack is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Anglicized spelling, used by Luo speakers, of Barak, ostensibly as an Old Testament name. A cognate of the biblical Baruch.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Barack (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Barack is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Barack is pronounced /bəˈɹak.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 312 boys were recorded with the name Barack between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 71 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,976 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,837 in 2020 to #10,854 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,834 in 2015 to #10,854 in 2025.

How common is Barack?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,854
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Barack 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barack. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Baracks were born

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

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
312
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Choose a decade

2010s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (148).

Is Barack 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
−830
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,017
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,020
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.5%
Peak was 2009 (71)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
92.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,976
2009

Spellings of Barack

Barack is not the most common spelling — Brock is, with 83.4% against Barack's 0.60%.

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.

Where Barack is used

Across 1910–2025, Barack was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,123,801 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Barack has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Barack around the world

Where Barack 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
    2008–2010
    #3,865
    in 2010
  • France
    2008–2023
    #6,535
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2008–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021

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.

Barack by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,854
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,017
Best rank ever
#1,976
2009
Peak year
2009
71 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
312
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Barack

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

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Sibling names for Barack

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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