Barrett
Barrett is ranked 186th among boys in 2024 (1,984 births). Its best rank was 186th, in 2024.
- Rank in 2024
- #186up 20 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,9840.12% of boys
- Peak year
- 20202,010 births
- Best rank
- #186in 2024
- Since 1886
- 32,236people given the name
The story in the numbers
31,284 boys have been named Barrett in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 2,010 births — 0.12% of all boys recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 346 → 186).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 37%. It has spent 73 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 952 girls have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Barrett | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 82 | |
| 1920s | 155 | |
| 1930s | 209 | |
| 1940s | 365 | |
| 1950s | 574 | |
| 1960s | 877 | |
| 1970s | 1,412 | |
| 1980s | 2,172 | |
| 1990s | 1,609 | |
| 2000s | 2,733 | |
| 2010s | 11,549 | |
| 2020s | 9,530 |
In 2020, its biggest year
Barrett was the 192nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Barrett
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alaricpeak 2020
- Cedarpeak 2022
- Rhettpeak 2021
- Remypeak 2022
- Hendrickpeak 2024
- Alistairpeak 2024
- Wolfpeak 2021
- Levpeak 2022
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.