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Barbro

Girls' name

Foreign, non-Greek

Barbro has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 1929. 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 1930, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Barbro, 1937

1 in 426,000

Barbro over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Barbro: meaning, origin, and history

Foreign, non-Greek

Ancient Greek and Latin

What Barbro means

Barbro means “foreign, non-Greek”, associated with bárbaros.

Origin, language, and formation

Barbro is used in Esperanto, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Barbara and βάρβαρος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Esperanto, Barbro is pronounced /ˈbarbro/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Barbro between 1929 and 1937. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1930; its best national rank was #3,378 in 1930.

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 Barbro?

Barbro had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1937, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1937
1 in 426,000
5 of 2,130,660 births
Among girls only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1937
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
295,373 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Barbro 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 1937 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 295,373 children born in 1937 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barbro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Barbros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Barbro was born before 1930 — so the typical Barbro is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
72.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 72.2% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Barbro 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1930 (8)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
60.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,378
1930

Spellings of Barbro

Barbro is not the most common spelling — Barbara is, with 98.8% against Barbro's <0.01%.

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.

Barbro around the world

Where Barbro 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.

  • Norway
    1880–1999
    #539
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1958–1958
    #412
    in 1958

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Barbro 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
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Best rank ever
#3,378
1930
Peak year
1930
8 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
1937
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Barbro

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

BareenBaraahBarkatBarshaBarkotBareeraBararaBarakaBarbaaBariahBarakahBarinBarikaBartolaBarettaBarandaBarclayBaranBardaraBartieBarberBarthaBarnieBarret

Sibling names for Barbro

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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