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Varvara

#10,850 in 2025Girls' name

Foreign, through Варва́ра

Varvara has been given to 192 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #10,850 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Varvara, 2025

1 in 368,000

Varvara over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Varvara: meaning, origin, and history

Foreign, through Варва́ра

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Varvara means

Varvara belongs to the name family reached through Varvara → Варва́ра. Its meaning is “foreign”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Russian Варва́ра (Varvára). Doublet of Barbara.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Varvara is used in English and Finnish.

Varvara comes through Russian Варва́ра.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Barbara and Варва́ра.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Varvara is pronounced /ˈʋɑrʋɑrɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 192 girls were recorded with the name Varvara between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2016; its best national rank was #7,208 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,377 in 2020 to #10,850 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,098 in 2015 to #10,850 in 2025.

How common is Varvara?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,850
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Varvara 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 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Varvara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Varvaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Varvara was born before 2016 — so the typical Varvara is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
192
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.3% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Varvara 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
−643
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,527
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−752
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.9%
Peak was 2016 (17)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,208
2016

Spellings of Varvara

Varvara is not the most common spelling — Barbara is, with 100.0% against Varvara's 0.01%.

  • Barbara100.0%1,436,695
  • Varvara0.01%192

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 Varvara is used

Across 1910–2025, Varvara was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 244,972 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 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. Varvara has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Varvara around the world

Where Varvara 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
    2008–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #7,187
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Varvara by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,850
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,527
Best rank ever
#7,208
2016
Peak year
2016
17 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
192
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Varvara

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

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Sibling names for Varvara

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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