girls:
4.1k births since 1936
#2685 (53rd percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1936
#4270 (45th percentile)
The name Barbie is the #4,270 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,116 recorded births since 1936. This represents the 44.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,685 (53.0% percentile) for all time with 4,116 births since 1936.
Barbie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1936 (first recorded for girls in 1936). Birth data for Barbie is available in 87 out of the 88 years between 1936 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 girls, Barbie reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 23.1% percentile (ranked #603) with 97 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 97 births per million (ranked 23.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Barbie ranks #920 for girls (2.9% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 18.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Barbie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Barbie is pronounced as BAHR-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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