Barret
Last seen for girls in 2002 at #15,432 · #3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1983 · 39 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,384since 1960
Barret over time
Rank among boys' names. Barret has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,658 | 30 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,433 | 23 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,742 | 21 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,879 | 28 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,628 | 21 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,141 | 24 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,993 | 40 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,793 | 28 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,312 | 34 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,776 | 28 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,513 | 31 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,263 | 23 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,060 | 36 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,862 | 19 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,983 | 18 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,036 | 14 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,748 | 20 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,744 | 28 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,375 | 22 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,520 | 20 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,278 | 15 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,421 | 19 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,276 | 19 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | — | #5,390 | 13 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,591 | 21 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,197 | 16 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,903 | 26 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,021 | 24 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,215 | 21 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,943 | 23 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,999 | 22 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,813 | 15 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,214 | 32 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,545 | 25 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,305 | 26 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,020 | 30 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,791 | 34 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,916 | 30 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,036 | 26 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,534 | 39 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,563 | 39 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,629 | 36 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,213 | 23 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,157 | 23 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,929 | 14 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,458 | 18 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,781 | 28 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,658 | 30 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,459 | 16 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,405 | 16 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,323 | 16 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,366 | 16 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,476 | 11 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Barret! It came in at #3,665, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1961, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
See more about Barret
- 775 spots since 2024 (#4,433 → #3,658)
- 483 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #3,658)
- 145 spots since 2015 (#3,513 → #3,658)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1983 at #1,534 (39 births)
- Births halved by 1991, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 44,855 boys born in 2019 were named Barret (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,534 in 1983, was only 1 in 45,963 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.3% of all boys named Barret (308) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 68 | #2,476 (1965) | #3,482 |
| 1970s | 185 | #1,658 (1975) | #2,406 |
| 1980s | 308 | #1,534 (1983) | #1,955 |
| 1990s | 219 | #2,214 (1990) | #3,233 |
| 2000s | 186 | #3,744 (2008) | #4,646 |
| 2010s | 271 | #2,993 (2019) | #4,059 |
| 2020s | 147 | #3,658 (2025) | #4,247 |
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.
Barret in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 72,863 of them was named Barret, which outranked 74.4% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,646Yoseph29
- #3,646Zarion29
- #3,646Ziyad29
- #3,744Barret28
- #3,744Amer28
- #3,744Arie28
- #3,744Atom28
- #3,823Aaric27
- #3,823Adham27
- #3,823Adrain27
Tied with 78 names at #3,744; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.