girls:
3.9k births since 1938
#2782 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.9k births since 1938
#4427 (43rd percentile)
The name Barb is the #4,427 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,853 recorded births since 1938. This represents the 42.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,782 (51.3% percentile) for all time with 3,853 births since 1938.
Barb first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1938 (first recorded for girls in 1938). Birth data for Barb is available in 33 out of the 35 years between 1938 and 1972. 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 girls, Barb reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 47.1% percentile (ranked #408) with 237 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 237 births per million (ranked 47.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1972.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Barb".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Barb is pronounced as bahrb, which has 1 syllables.
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