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Baruch

#2,260 in 2025Boys' name

Blessed

Baruch has been given to 1,954 babies in the U.S. since 1945. In 2025 it ranked #2,260 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Baruch, 2025

1 in 53,500

Baruch over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Baruch: meaning, origin, and history

Blessed

Hebrew

What Baruch means

Baruch means “blessed”, associated with Barukh.

Origin, language, and formation

Baruch is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Baruch comes through Hebrew בָּרוּךְ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Baruch is pronounced /ˈbɛ ɹəx/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,954 boys were recorded with the name Baruch between 1945 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,998 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,237 in 2020 to #2,260 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,606 in 2015 to #2,260 in 2025.

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 Baruch?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 27,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,260
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Baruch 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 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baruch. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Baruchs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Baruch was born before 2006 — so the typical Baruch is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,944
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2010s — 24.1% of all recorded uses (471).

Is Baruch 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
−68
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−23
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+346
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.6%
Peak was 2023 (76)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,998
2023

Spellings of Baruch

Baruch is not the most common spelling — Bruce is, with 97.7% against Baruch's 0.49%.

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 Baruch is used

Across 1910–2025, Baruch was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 43,350 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 12,500
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

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. Baruch has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Baruch around the world

Where Baruch 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
    2002–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2023–2023
    #4,846
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1996–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Baruch by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,260
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 23
Best rank ever
#1,998
2023
Peak year
2023
76 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,954
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Baruch

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

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Sibling names for Baruch

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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