Bary
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bary has been given to 299 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1961, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Bary, 1982
1 in 585,000
Bary 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Bary?
Bary had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1982
- 1 in 585,000
- 6 of 3,507,638 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 302,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1982
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 405,219 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bary sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 405,219 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Barys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bary was born before 1959 — so the typical Bary is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 33.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 54.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 238
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (100).
Is Bary 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 1961 (15)
- Years since peak
- 64
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.9% average annual change
Spellings of Bary
Bary is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 23.3% against Bary'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.
Bary around the world
Where Bary 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.
- France2018–2018#4,630in 2018
- South Australia1947–1954#360in 1954
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bary by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bary
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bary
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.