girls:
23 births since 2006
#5693 (0th percentile)
boys:
27 births since 1996
#4559 (1st percentile)
overall:
50 births since 1996
#7689 (1st percentile)
The name Bar is the #7,689 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 50 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1996. For girls, it ranks #5,693 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 2006.
Bar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (1996 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Bar is available in 8 out of the 25 years between 1996 and 2020 (5 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bar is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2020, 100.0% of babies named Bar were boys.
For boys, Bar reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #879) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Bar reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #939) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bar".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Bar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Bar is pronounced as bahr, which has 1 syllables.
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