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Barak

#9,011 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Barak has been given to 929 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #9,011 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Barak, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Barak: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Hebrew and Arabic

What Barak means

Barak has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: “lightning” and “he who is blessed”.

Origin, language, and formation

Barak is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew and Arabic.

Barak comes through Hebrew בָּרָק.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Israeli.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Barak is pronounced /ˈbɛrək/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 929 boys were recorded with the name Barak between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2006; its best national rank was #2,219 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,574 in 2020 to #9,011 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,680 in 2015 to #9,011 in 2025.

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 Barak?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,011
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Barak 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Baraks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Barak was born before 1994 — so the typical Barak is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
929
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (214).

Is Barak 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
−3,750
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,437
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+669
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.6%
Peak was 2006 (29)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,219
1970

Spellings of Barak

Barak is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 79.9% against Barak's 0.05%.

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 Barak is used

Across 1910–2025, Barak was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 772,281 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Barak has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Barak around the world

Where Barak 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
    2024–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1965–1965
    #574
    in 1965

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Barak by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,011
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,437
Best rank ever
#2,219
1970
Peak year
2006
29 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
929
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Barak

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

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Sibling names for Barak

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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