Name Awesome

Barbi

Girls' name

Non-Greek-speaking, foreign, through Barbara

Barbi has been given to 586 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 1975, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Barbi, 1987

1 in 721,000

Barbi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Barbi: meaning, origin, and history

Non-Greek-speaking, foreign, through Barbara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Barbi means

Barbi belongs to the name family reached through Barbi → Barbara. Its meaning is “non-Greek-speaking, foreign”.

Origin, language, and formation

Barbi is used in Hungarian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Barbara.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Barbi is pronounced [ˈbɒrbi].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 586 girls were recorded with the name Barbi between 1953 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1975; its best national rank was #2,098 in 1975.

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 Barbi?

Barbi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 721,000
5 of 3,605,072 births
Among girls only
1 in 348,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
499,770 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Barbi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 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 499,770 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barbi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Barbis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Barbi was born before 1971 — so the typical Barbi is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
586
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (246).

Is Barbi 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 1975 (41)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,098
1975

Spellings of Barbi

Barbi is not the most common spelling — Kari is, with 23.3% against Barbi's 0.23%.

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 Barbi is used

Across 1910–2025, Barbi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,393,989 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Barbi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Barbi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,098
1975
Peak year
1975
41 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
586
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Barbi

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

BarriBarryBaranBarrettBarbaBarinBarbyBarbarDarbiBarbieBarkatBaraahBarrieBariBareenKirbiBarbeeBarneyBarbBarakahBaraaBarberaBarbeBarbette

Sibling names for Barbi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Barbi

Top names of 1975, Barbi's peak yearThe 1970s in fullOther names that peaked in 1975Girls' names starting with BUncommon Hungarian Girl Names