girls:
5 births since 1941
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
18 births since 1913
#4568 (0th percentile)
overall:
23 births since 1913
#7716 (0th percentile)
The name Barber is the #7,716 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,568 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1941.
Barber first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1941 for girls). Birth data for Barber is available in 4 out of the 29 years between 1913 and 1941 (3 years for boys and 1 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 Barber has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.3% of all recorded births being male. In 1941, 0.0% of babies named Barber were boys. Interestingly, until around 1937, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1913 to 1936), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1937 to 1941).
For boys, Barber reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #533) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1932.
For girls, Barber reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #589) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1941.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Barber".
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