Barron
#790 for boys in 2025, 320 births
- Peak · boys
- 1966 · 97 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,647since 1913
Barron over time
Rank among boys' names. Barron 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 | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #790 | 320 |
| 2024 | #1,019 | 219 |
| 2023 | #1,420 | 128 |
| 2022 | #1,496 | 121 |
| 2021 | #1,339 | 138 |
| 2020 | #1,313 | 137 |
| 2019 | #1,564 | 107 |
| 2018 | #1,431 | 122 |
| 2017 | #1,321 | 136 |
| 2016 | #1,663 | 95 |
| 2015 | #1,955 | 74 |
| 2014 | #2,000 | 71 |
| 2013 | #1,915 | 73 |
| 2012 | #2,155 | 62 |
| 2011 | #2,035 | 66 |
| 2010 | #1,713 | 89 |
| 2009 | #2,183 | 61 |
| 2008 | #1,899 | 76 |
| 2007 | #1,830 | 79 |
| 2006 | #1,967 | 68 |
| 2005 | #2,752 | 39 |
| 2004 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 2002 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #2,520 | 38 |
| 2000 | #2,330 | 41 |
| 1999 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #2,157 | 42 |
| 1997 | #1,991 | 45 |
| 1996 | #1,872 | 48 |
| 1995 | #2,346 | 33 |
| 1994 | #1,977 | 42 |
| 1993 | #1,850 | 45 |
| 1992 | #1,452 | 63 |
| 1991 | #1,677 | 49 |
| 1990 | #1,530 | 55 |
| 1989 | #1,766 | 43 |
| 1988 | #1,501 | 50 |
| 1987 | #1,563 | 45 |
| 1986 | #1,286 | 57 |
| 1985 | #1,614 | 39 |
| 1984 | #1,556 | 39 |
| 1983 | #1,562 | 38 |
| 1982 | #1,415 | 45 |
| 1981 | #1,334 | 49 |
| 1980 | #1,258 | 54 |
| 1979 | #1,370 | 46 |
| 1978 | #1,240 | 52 |
| 1977 | #1,252 | 50 |
| 1976 | #1,373 | 42 |
| 1975 | #1,345 | 42 |
| 1974 | #1,082 | 58 |
| 1973 | #1,108 | 54 |
| 1972 | #1,032 | 61 |
| 1971 | #933 | 76 |
| 1970 | #884 | 83 |
| 1969 | #861 | 79 |
| 1968 | #898 | 64 |
| 1967 | #862 | 69 |
| 1966 | #750 | 97 |
| 1965 | #789 | 88 |
| 1964 | #823 | 84 |
| 1963 | #851 | 79 |
| 1962 | #871 | 76 |
| 1961 | #1,035 | 57 |
| 1960 | #927 | 66 |
| 1959 | #897 | 73 |
| 1958 | #1,114 | 47 |
| 1957 | #1,214 | 41 |
| 1956 | #966 | 60 |
| 1955 | #1,105 | 45 |
| 1954 | #939 | 62 |
| 1953 | #1,189 | 39 |
| 1952 | #1,268 | 34 |
| 1951 | #1,261 | 34 |
| 1950 | #1,340 | 29 |
| 1949 | #1,252 | 33 |
| 1948 | #1,256 | 33 |
| 1947 | #1,233 | 35 |
| 1946 | #1,299 | 29 |
| 1945 | #1,852 | 14 |
| 1944 | #1,574 | 19 |
| 1943 | #1,636 | 19 |
| 1942 | #1,585 | 20 |
| 1941 | #1,532 | 20 |
| 1940 | #1,802 | 15 |
| 1939 | #2,159 | 11 |
| 1938 | #2,646 | 8 |
| 1937 | #2,197 | 11 |
| 1936 | #2,452 | 9 |
| 1935 | #2,396 | 10 |
| 1934 | #2,121 | 12 |
| 1933 | #1,770 | 16 |
| 1932 | #1,848 | 16 |
| 1931 | #3,095 | 7 |
| 1930 | #2,079 | 14 |
| 1929 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1928 | #2,162 | 14 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,302 | 13 |
| 1925 | #3,408 | 7 |
| 1924 | #2,347 | 13 |
| 1923 | #2,772 | 10 |
| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #2,376 | 13 |
| 1920 | #2,602 | 11 |
| 1919 | #3,736 | 6 |
| 1918 | #3,096 | 8 |
| 1917 | #2,280 | 12 |
| 1916 | #2,152 | 13 |
| 1915 | #3,082 | 7 |
| 1914 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,821 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Barron! It came in at #2,821, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1914, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Barron
- 229 spots since 2024 (#1,019 → #790)
- 523 spots since 2020 (#1,313 → #790)
- 1,165 spots since 2015 (#1,955 → #790)
- Biggest jump: 250 spots in 1954 (#1,189 → #939)
- Biggest drop: 248 spots in 1957 (#966 → #1,214)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1966 at #750 (97 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1962–1971
- Highest: 1 in 5,338 boys born in 2025 were named Barron (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #750 in 1966, was only 1 in 18,386 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 18.8% of all boys named Barron (1,063) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 51 | #2,152 (1916) | #2,861 |
| 1920s | 92 | #2,162 (1928) | #2,871 |
| 1930s | 114 | #1,770 (1933) | #2,276 |
| 1940s | 237 | #1,233 (1947) | #1,502 |
| 1950s | 464 | #897 (1959) | #1,129 |
| 1960s | 759 | #750 (1966) | #867 |
| 1970s | 564 | #884 (1970) | #1,162 |
| 1980s | 459 | #1,258 (1980) | #1,486 |
| 1990s | 459 | #1,452 (1992) | #1,925 |
| 2000s | 490 | #1,830 (2007) | #2,521 |
| 2010s | 895 | #1,321 (2017) | #1,775 |
| 2020s | 1,063 | #790 (2025) | #1,230 |
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.
Barron in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 51,128 of them was named Barron, which outranked 79.5% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,489Roan39
- #2,489Scottie39
- #2,489Trequan39
- #2,520Barron38
- #2,520Alexandros38
- #2,520Ameen38
- #2,520Armoni38
- #2,562Abdirahman37
- #2,562Akira37
- #2,562Aleczander37
Tied with 41 names at #2,520; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.