Barrington
#7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · boys
- 1984 · 33 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,281since 1928
Barrington over time
Rank among boys' names. Barrington has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #5,102 | 18 |
| 2008 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #5,303 | 16 |
| 2005 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #5,246 | 15 |
| 2003 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #4,204 | 18 |
| 1999 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #2,782 | 29 |
| 1997 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #2,299 | 34 |
| 1994 | #2,347 | 33 |
| 1993 | #2,399 | 31 |
| 1992 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #1,823 | 43 |
| 1990 | #2,255 | 31 |
| 1989 | #2,154 | 32 |
| 1988 | #1,909 | 34 |
| 1987 | #2,020 | 30 |
| 1986 | #1,791 | 34 |
| 1985 | #2,598 | 19 |
| 1984 | #1,723 | 33 |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 22 |
| 1982 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #2,270 | 22 |
| 1980 | #2,110 | 25 |
| 1979 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | #2,205 | 21 |
| 1977 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | #2,601 | 16 |
| 1975 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #2,415 | 13 |
| 1968 | #2,907 | 9 |
| 1967 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #2,366 | 12 |
| 1964 | #3,050 | 8 |
| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
| 1962 | #2,186 | 14 |
| 1961 | #2,148 | 15 |
| 1960 | #2,210 | 14 |
| 1959 | #2,663 | 10 |
| 1958 | #2,506 | 11 |
| 1957 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | #2,361 | 12 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,287 | 12 |
| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,770 | 8 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,115 | 13 |
| 1947 | #3,096 | 7 |
| 1946 | #2,030 | 13 |
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| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #2,712 | 8 |
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| 1939 | #3,113 | 6 |
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| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
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| 1933 | #3,268 | 6 |
| 1932 | #2,313 | 11 |
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| 1928 | #3,697 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Barrington! It came in at #3,697, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1929–1931, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Barrington is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#822 · 1 in 13,782
Best ever in a state: #136 in District of Columbia, 1937.
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| New York | #822 | 8 | 1 in 13,782 |
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See more about Barrington
- 571 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #7,194)
- 160 spots since 2020 (#7,034 → #7,194)
- 870 spots since 2015 (#6,324 → #7,194)
- Debuted 1928
- Peaked 1984 at #1,723 (33 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 46,984 boys born in 1991 were named Barrington (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,723 in 1984, was only 1 in 54,692 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.6% of all boys named Barrington (290) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | #3,697 (1928) | #3,697 |
| 1930s | 28 | #2,313 (1932) | #3,053 |
| 1940s | 47 | #2,030 (1946) | #2,637 |
| 1950s | 75 | #2,287 (1953) | #2,759 |
| 1960s | 108 | #2,148 (1961) | #2,654 |
| 1970s | 119 | #2,205 (1978) | #3,172 |
| 1980s | 262 | #1,723 (1984) | #2,254 |
| 1990s | 290 | #1,823 (1991) | #2,685 |
| 2000s | 155 | #4,204 (2000) | #5,244 |
| 2010s | 133 | #4,848 (2010) | #6,391 |
| 2020s | 58 | #6,032 (2021) | #6,971 |
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.
Barrington in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 78,183 of them was named Barrington, which outranked 67.4% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,134Webster22
- #2,134Zacharia22
- #2,134Zachry22
- #2,205Barrington21
- #2,205Andrian21
- #2,205Ayinde21
- #2,205Bentley21
- #2,279Adnan20
- #2,279Alicia20
- #2,279Antawn20
Tied with 73 names at #2,205; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.