girls:
24 births since 1969
#5692 (0th percentile)
boys:
954 births since 1912
#3638 (21st percentile)
overall:
978 births since 1912
#6761 (13th percentile)
The name Barclay is the #6,761 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 978 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 12.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,638 (20.6% percentile) for all time with 954 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,692 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 1969.
Barclay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Barclay is available in 91 out of the 110 years between 1912 and 2021 (91 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 Barclay has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Barclay reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #647) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 17 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Barclay reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #759) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Barclay".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Barclay.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Barclay", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Barclay.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Barclay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Barclay is pronounced as BAHRK-lay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BAHRK-lee, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Barclay? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Barclay. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Barclay, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like B AA1 R K L EY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker