Baraka
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · #4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
Given to boys 94.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1972 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 393since 1971
Baraka over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,249 | 24 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,443 | 17 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,742 | 21 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,445 | 17 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,247 | 24 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,699 | 15 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | — | #6,345 | 13 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,746 | 20 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,555 | 16 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,999 | 14 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | — | #7,026 | 11 | |
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| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #9,693 | 7 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,487 | 16 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,622 | 12 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,072 | 17 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,875 | 13 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,976 | 10 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | #8,456 | 7 | |
| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
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| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
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| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
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| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #6,262 | 5 |
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| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | — | #2,158 | 18 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Baraka! It came in at #4,375, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Baraka
- 1,194 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #4,249)
- 1,450 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #4,249)
- 1,750 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #4,249)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1972 at #2,158 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1973, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 were named Baraka (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,158 in 1972, was only 1 in 90,089 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.0% of all boys named Baraka (118) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1994, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 45 | #2,158 (1972) | #3,847 |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,262 (1981) | #6,262 |
| 1990s | 21 | #8,479 (1998) | #9,131 |
| 2000s | 95 | #5,072 (2006) | #7,415 |
| 2010s | 109 | #4,746 (2017) | #7,190 |
| 2020s | 118 | #4,247 (2021) | #4,971 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Baraka in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 294,741 of them was named Baraka, which outranked 22.6% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,963Zechariah7
- #3,963Zeferino7
- #3,963Zerrick7
- #4,375Baraka6
- #4,375Abelino6
- #4,375Absalom6
- #4,375Acey6
- #4,907Abdel5
- #4,907Abiel5
- #4,907Achille5
Tied with 531 names at #4,375; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.