Barth

Last seen for boys in 1976 at #4,418

Peak · boys
1955 · 26 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
470
since 1916

Barth over time

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Rank among boys' names. Barth has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201943peak #1,503, 1955boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1976#4,4187
1975#5,4645
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1972#4,9865
1971#4,3756
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1969#2,68211
1968#2,73510
1967#2,7609
1966#2,62710
1965#2,27013
1964#1,90018
1963#1,65923
1962#1,80520
1961#1,68623
1960#1,85819
1959#2,53011
1958#1,89618
1957#2,01916
1956#1,53226
1955#1,50326
1954#1,95616
1953#1,90017
1952#2,8758
1951#2,6629
1950#2,7708
1949#3,6905
1948#2,7888
1947#2,8628
1946#2,6908
1945#3,3385
1944#2,6338
1943#2,18212
1942#3,5605
1941#3,5055
1940#3,4595
1939
1938#2,8687
1937#2,9057
1936#2,8547
1935#2,9517
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1932#3,7765
1931#3,0957
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1929#3,5596
1928#4,1515
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1922#4,3075
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1918#4,1795
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1916#3,5166
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five boys were named Barth! It came in at #3,516, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1917–1928, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Barth
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1976
Rise & fade · boys
39 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 1955 at #1,503 (26 births)
  • Births halved by 1959, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 79,227
  • Highest: 1 in 79,227 boys born in 1955 were named Barth (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 224,144 boys born in 1976 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1960s
  • 33.2% of all boys named Barth (156) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s11#3,516 (1916)#3,848
1920s16#3,559 (1929)#4,006
1930s40#2,854 (1936)#3,075
1940s69#2,182 (1943)#3,071
1950s155#1,503 (1955)#2,164
1960s156#1,659 (1963)#2,198
1970s23#4,375 (1971)#4,811

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.

Barth in 1943

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#2,182
12 births · 1 in 118,941 boys

Top boys' names in 1943

  1. #1James80,278
  2. #2Robert74,892
  3. #3John68,929
  4. #4William55,904
  5. #5Richard46,339
  6. #6David37,240
  7. #7Charles36,632
  8. #8Thomas32,874
  9. #9Ronald29,239
  10. #10Michael24,745
  11. #2,182Barth12
More about 1943

boys

1,427,297 boys got a published name in 1943; 1 in 118,941 of them was named Barth, which outranked 46.0% of the 4,040 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Barth
  1. #2,074Winslow13
  2. #2,074Wm13
  3. #2,074Worley13
  4. #2,182Barth12
  5. #2,182Alcide12
  6. #2,182Andrea12
  7. #2,182Axel12
  8. #2,277Abran11
  9. #2,277Adalberto11
  10. #2,277Alexis11

Tied with 94 names at #2,182; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1942
Risers
  1. 514Derek#1,228#714
  2. 465Armond#1,421#956
  3. 368Les#1,214#846
  4. 347Aron#1,244#897
  5. 321Edsel#1,167#846
Fallers
  1. 500Humberto#780#1,280
  2. 352Chauncey#928#1,280
  3. 352Clearence#991#1,343
  4. 344Macarthur#512#856
  5. 325Reyes#933#1,258

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1943