Barbarba
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Barbarba has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1946, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Barbarba, 1959
1 in 832,000
Barbarba 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Barbarba?
Barbarba had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1959, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1959
- 1 in 832,000
- 5 of 4,157,642 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 405,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1959
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 576,373 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Barbarba sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1959 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 576,373 children born in 1959 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barbarba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Barbarbas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Barbarba was born before 1946 — so the typical Barbarba is around 79 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 54.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Barbarba 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 1946 (6)
- Years since peak
- 79
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Barbarba
Barbarba is not the most common spelling — Barbara is, with 99.5% against Barbarba's <0.01%.
Barbarba by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Barbarba
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Barbarba
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.