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Barbara
Pronounced /ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/
Rank in 2024
#859
Born in 2024
313
Peak year
1947 · #4
Origin
Latin
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 313 girls were named Barbara, about 1 in every 5,154.
- It peaked in 1947 with 48,800 babies, ranked #4.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,436,402 girls have been named Barbara since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Barbara per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 4.6Greatest1901–27
- 27.5Silent1928–45
- 17.6Boomers1946–64
- 4.0Gen X1965–80
- 0.8Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 93,665 babies, 4.58 per 1,000. Silent: 569,248 babies, 27.55 per 1,000. Boomers: 631,943 babies, 17.64 per 1,000. Gen X: 101,717 babies, 3.98 per 1,000. Millennials: 23,578 babies, 0.83 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7,634 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,676 babies, 0.18 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Latin Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Doublet of Varvara. (logic): From the given name; chosen because it has three A's in it representing universal affirmatives.
- A female given name from Latin.
- Origin
- Latin
- Say it
- /ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Barbara, CC BY-SA 4.0.