Barbie
#4,265 for girls in 2025, 33 births
- Peak · girls
- 1964 · 190 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,204since 1936
Barbie over time
Rank among girls' names. Barbie has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,265 | 33 |
| 2024 | #3,119 | 51 |
| 2023 | #4,191 | 34 |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 |
| 2021 | #3,883 | 38 |
| 2020 | #4,880 | 26 |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 |
| 2016 | #4,734 | 29 |
| 2015 | #4,232 | 34 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 |
| 2013 | #3,849 | 39 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 |
| 2008 | #4,882 | 30 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 |
| 2006 | #5,383 | 25 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #4,955 | 21 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 |
| 1994 | #4,016 | 26 |
| 1993 | #4,671 | 21 |
| 1992 | #3,773 | 28 |
| 1991 | #3,443 | 31 |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 43 |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 |
| 1988 | #2,867 | 36 |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 |
| 1986 | #2,052 | 52 |
| 1985 | #2,362 | 42 |
| 1984 | #2,018 | 50 |
| 1983 | #1,907 | 54 |
| 1982 | #1,735 | 64 |
| 1981 | #1,515 | 79 |
| 1980 | #1,583 | 73 |
| 1979 | #1,555 | 74 |
| 1978 | #1,487 | 76 |
| 1977 | #1,268 | 94 |
| 1976 | #1,252 | 89 |
| 1975 | #1,316 | 83 |
| 1974 | #1,364 | 76 |
| 1973 | #1,374 | 72 |
| 1972 | #1,263 | 81 |
| 1971 | #1,118 | 105 |
| 1970 | #1,042 | 118 |
| 1969 | #1,124 | 97 |
| 1968 | #939 | 121 |
| 1967 | #770 | 163 |
| 1966 | #929 | 118 |
| 1965 | #915 | 121 |
| 1964 | #756 | 190 |
| 1963 | #796 | 170 |
| 1962 | #855 | 152 |
| 1961 | #937 | 132 |
| 1960 | #1,199 | 82 |
| 1959 | #1,299 | 68 |
| 1958 | #1,340 | 62 |
| 1957 | #1,612 | 45 |
| 1956 | #2,058 | 28 |
| 1955 | #2,156 | 25 |
| 1954 | #2,122 | 25 |
| 1953 | #2,301 | 21 |
| 1952 | #2,126 | 23 |
| 1951 | #2,064 | 23 |
| 1950 | #2,341 | 18 |
| 1949 | #2,410 | 17 |
| 1948 | #2,188 | 20 |
| 1947 | #2,279 | 19 |
| 1946 | #2,392 | 16 |
| 1945 | #2,060 | 17 |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
| 1943 | #3,040 | 10 |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 |
| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 |
| 1939 | #2,922 | 9 |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 |
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| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Barbie! It came in at #4,181, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1936–1937, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Barbie
- 1,146 spots since 2024 (#3,119 → #4,265)
- 615 spots since 2020 (#4,880 → #4,265)
- 33 spots since 2015 (#4,232 → #4,265)
- Biggest jump: 262 spots in 1961 (#1,199 → #937)
- Biggest drop: 185 spots in 1969 (#939 → #1,124)
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 1964 at #756 (190 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1961–1968
- Highest: 1 in 9,973 girls born in 1964 were named Barbie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,705 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.0% of all girls named Barbie (1,346) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 21 | #2,922 (1939) | #3,518 |
| 1940s | 129 | #2,060 (1945) | #2,836 |
| 1950s | 338 | #1,299 (1959) | #1,942 |
| 1960s | 1,346 | #756 (1964) | #922 |
| 1970s | 868 | #1,042 (1970) | #1,304 |
| 1980s | 515 | #1,515 (1981) | #2,226 |
| 1990s | 242 | #2,695 (1990) | #4,562 |
| 2000s | 244 | #4,767 (2002) | #5,274 |
| 2010s | 292 | #3,849 (2013) | #4,911 |
| 2020s | 209 | #3,119 (2024) | #4,208 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Barbie in 1956
Top girls' names in 1956
More about 1956
girls
2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 71,704 of them was named Barbie, which outranked 70.1% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,005Vina29
- #2,005Zaida29
- #2,005Zetta29
- #2,058Barbie28
- #2,058Bess28
- #2,058Blair28
- #2,058Chaya28
- #2,103Adelaida27
- #2,103Albert27
- #2,103Allen27
Tied with 44 names at #2,058; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.