girls:
82 births since 2010
#5634 (1st percentile)
boys:
171 births since 1999
#4415 (4th percentile)
overall:
253 births since 1999
#7486 (3rd percentile)
The name Baran is the #7,486 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 253 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,415 (3.7% percentile) for all time with 171 births since 1999. For girls, it ranks #5,634 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 82 births since 2010.
Baran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 (1999 for boys and 2010 for girls). Birth data for Baran is available in 23 out of the 25 years between 1999 and 2023 (19 years for boys and 12 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 Baran has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (67.6% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Baran were boys. Interestingly, until around 2021, the name was more popular for boys (72.5% boys from 1999 to 2020), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2021 to 2023).
For boys, Baran reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #896) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Baran reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #936) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Baran ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 67.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Baran".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Baran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.5% confident that Baran is pronounced as bah-RAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BAH-ruhn, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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