Barrie
Recorded 1924–2022 · United States
Barrie was most popular in 1961, when 147 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,497 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,045 people named Barrie.
Barrie over time
How old is the name Barrie?
Barrie first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1924, which makes it about 101 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 75 of the 102 years since.
How many people are named Barrie?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,045 American births named Barrie between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,136 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Barrie in 2025?
Barrie was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Barrie getting more or less popular?
Barrie is new. It was not recorded at all a decade ago and averaged 5 births a year across 2021–2025.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Barrie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Barrie is a unisex name — 56.1% of the 3,045 Americans given it were girls and 43.9% were boys. It changed hands: since 1959 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Barrie?
Roughly 2,136 Americans named Barrie are alive today — 70% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 64 years old, and half are between 56 and 74.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Barrie is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org