girls:
38 births since 1997
#5678 (1st percentile)
boys:
162 births since 1997
#4424 (3rd percentile)
overall:
200 births since 1997
#7539 (3rd percentile)
The name Baraa is the #7,539 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 200 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 2.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,424 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 162 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,678 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1997.
Baraa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 . Birth data for Baraa is available in 21 out of the 27 years between 1997 and 2023 (21 years for boys and 6 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 Baraa has been given predominantly to boys, with 81.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Baraa were boys.
For boys, Baraa reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #905) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Baraa ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 38.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Baraa reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #938) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Baraa".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Baraa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.2% confident that Baraa is pronounced as bah-RAH, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is buh-RAH, at 29.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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