Barren
- #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · boys
- 1963 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 95since 1960
Barren over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Barren has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
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| 2018 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #9,664 | 7 |
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| 2013 | #12,136 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
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| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
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First appearance
1960
The first year at least five boys were named Barren! It came in at #4,038, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1962, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Barren is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Barren in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Barren
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 496 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #8,243)
Rise & fade · boys
3 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1963 at #3,044 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 189,786
- Highest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 were named Barren (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,044 in 1963, was only 1 in 253,885 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 38.9% of all boys named Barren (37) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 28 | #3,044 (1963) | #3,845 |
| 1970s | 5 | #4,907 (1971) | #4,907 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 25 | #9,664 (2016) | #10,561 |
| 2020s | 37 | #8,166 (2021) | #9,660 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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