Barry
Barry is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 130 births. Its best rank was 61st, in 1962.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1300.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19626,584 births
- Best rank
- #61in 1962
- Since 1883
- 181,155people given the name
The story in the numbers
181,155 boys have been named Barry in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 6,584 births — 0.32% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 130 births in 2024, against 6,584 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 30%. It has spent 97 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 28 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Barry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | |
| 1890s | 38 | |
| 1900s | 72 | |
| 1910s | 244 | |
| 1920s | 741 | |
| 1930s | 6,644 | |
| 1940s | 36,192 | |
| 1950s | 54,812 | |
| 1960s | 47,220 | |
| 1970s | 17,247 | |
| 1980s | 9,924 | |
| 1990s | 4,224 | |
| 2000s | 1,831 | |
| 2010s | 1,325 | |
| 2020s | 613 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Barry was the 61st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Barry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Terrypeak 1957
- Butchpeak 1956
- Ronniepeak 1947
- Dannypeak 1954
- Ronneypeak 1955
- Douglaspeak 1957
- Donniepeak 1952
- Stanpeak 1959
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.