boys:
895 births since 1891
#3694 (19th percentile)
overall:
895 births since 1891
#6844 (12th percentile)
The name Barnard is the #6,844 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 895 recorded births since 1891. This represents the 11.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,694 (19.4% percentile) for all time with 895 births since 1891.
Barnard first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1891 (first recorded for boys in 1891). Birth data for Barnard is available in 77 out of the 108 years between 1891 and 1998. 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 boys, Barnard reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #528) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 46 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Barnard".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Barnard. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Barnard is pronounced as BAHR-nerd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BAHR-nahrd, at 13.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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