Barbaralee
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Barbaralee has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 1940, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Barbaralee, 1945
1 in 531,000
Barbaralee 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Barbaralee?
Barbaralee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1945, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1945
- 1 in 531,000
- 5 of 2,652,840 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 261,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1945
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 367,763 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Barbaralee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1945 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 367,763 children born in 1945 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barbaralee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Barbaralees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Barbaralee was born before 1944 — so the typical Barbaralee is around 81 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Barbaralee 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
- —
- 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 1940 (5)
- Years since peak
- 85
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Barbaralee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Barbaralee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Barbaralee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.