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Barri

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Literal meaning not recorded

Barri has been given to 551 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1960, with 35 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% girls, 9% boys all-time.

Babies named Barri, 1999

1 in 462,000

Barri over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Barri over time

In 1999, Barri went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19441999

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Barri: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Barri means

Barri is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Barri is used in Icelandic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 504 girls were recorded with the name Barri between 1944 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1960; its best national rank was #1,926 in 1960.

In the United States, 47 boys were recorded with the name Barri between 1956 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1963; its best national rank was #3,064 in 1963.

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 Barri?

Barri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 462,000
8 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 222,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
319,921 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Barri 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 1999 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 319,921 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Barris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Barri was born before 1965 — so the typical Barri is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
49.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
484
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1960s — 49.2% of all recorded uses (248).

Is Barri 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1960 (35)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,926
1960

Spellings of Barri

Barri is not the most common spelling — Carrie is, with 34.5% against Barri's 0.07%.

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 Barri is used

Across 1910–2025, Barri was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 776,660 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Barri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Barri around the world

Where Barri 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.

  • South Australia
    1976–1976
    #651
    in 1976

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

Barri 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
#1,926
1960
Peak year
1960
35 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
504
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,064
1963
Peak year
1963
8 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Barri

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

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Sibling names for Barri

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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