Barkley
#10,855 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Barkley has been given to 323 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #10,855 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Barkley, 2025
1 in 553,000
Barkley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Barkley?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,855
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Barkley sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barkley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Barkleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Barkley was born before 1961 — so the typical Barkley is around 64 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 21.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 237
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (69).
Is Barkley 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
- 35.3%
- Peak was 1994 (17)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.8% average annual change
Spellings of Barkley
Barkley is not the most common spelling — Harley is, with 35.7% against Barkley's 0.28%.
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.
Barkley around the world
Where Barkley 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 & Wales2007–2023#4,992in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Barkley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Barkley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Barkley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.