girls:
1.7k births since 1930
#4055 (29th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1924
#3282 (28th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1924
#4924 (36th percentile)
The name Barrie is the #4,924 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,045 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 36.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,055 (29.0% percentile) for all time with 1,708 births since 1930. For boys, it ranks #3,282 (28.4% percentile) for all time with 1,337 births since 1924.
Barrie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for boys and 1930 for girls). Birth data for Barrie is available in 75 out of the 99 years between 1924 and 2022 (67 years for boys and 66 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 Barrie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (56.1% of all recorded births). In 2022, 0.0% of babies named Barrie were girls.
For girls, Barrie reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 14.2% percentile (ranked #676) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 56 births per million (ranked 14.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
For boys, Barrie reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #498) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 1942, with 41 births per million (ranked 9.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Barrie".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Barrie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 8 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Barry" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Barry..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Barrie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.7% confident that Barrie is pronounced as BEH-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BA-ree, at 35.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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