boys:
903 births since 1953
#3686 (20th percentile)
overall:
903 births since 1953
#6836 (12th percentile)
The name Barak is the #6,836 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 903 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 11.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,686 (19.6% percentile) for all time with 903 births since 1953.
Barak first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (first recorded for boys in 1953). Birth data for Barak is available in 62 out of the 71 years between 1953 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Barak reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #754) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Barak ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 37.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Barak".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Barak. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.3% confident that Barak is pronounced as BAH-ruhk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BAH-rak, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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