girls:
23 births since 1973
#5693 (0th percentile)
boys:
352 births since 1971
#4234 (8th percentile)
overall:
375 births since 1971
#7364 (5th percentile)
The name Baraka is the #7,364 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 375 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 4.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,234 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 352 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,693 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1973.
Baraka first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 1973 for girls). Birth data for Baraka is available in 32 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (32 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 Baraka has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Baraka reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #911) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Baraka ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 89.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Baraka reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #774) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Baraka".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Baraka. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.1% confident that Baraka is pronounced as buh-RAH-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bah-RAH-kuh, at 29.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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