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Barton

#9,014 in 2025Boys' name

Barley + enclosure

Barton has been given to 9,371 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #9,014 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 245 recorded.

Babies named Barton, 2025

1 in 414,000

Barton over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Barton: meaning, origin, and history

Barley + enclosure

surname transfer

What Barton means

Barton means “barley + enclosure”, associated with bere and tūn.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English bere (“barley”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Barton (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Barton is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Barton comes through Old English bere and Old English tūn.

Barton is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Barton is pronounced /ˈbɑː(ɹ)tən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,371 boys were recorded with the name Barton between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 245 in 1960; its best national rank was #446 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,682 in 2020 to #9,014 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,285 in 2015 to #9,014 in 2025.

How common is Barton?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,014
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Barton sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bartons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Barton was born before 1956 — so the typical Barton is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,846
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (1,878).

Is Barton 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
+3,551
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+668
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,271
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.3%
Peak was 1960 (245)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#446
1888

Spellings of Barton

Barton is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 30.7% against Barton's 0.47%.

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 Barton is used

Across 1910–2025, Barton was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 34,276 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Iowa1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 25,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 25,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 25,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 33,333

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

Barton around the world

Where Barton 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 & Wales
    1996–1998
    #2,901
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1961–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Barton

People whose public names include Barton, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Barton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,014
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 668
Best rank ever
#446
1888
Peak year
1960
245 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,371
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Barton

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

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Names with a curve like Barton

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Barton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Barton

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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