How Many People Are Named Barret?
people named Barret are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 257,368 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,389 babies named Barret in Social Security records from 1960 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
40 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a surname which was a variant of BARRETT.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Barret in English. Counting Barret and these spellings together, about 34,253 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Barret (99.6%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Barret alive today is about 28 years old, and 52% are under 30. Half of them were between 12 and 42 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Barret first appears in the records in 1960 and was given most often in 2019, to 40 babies. In 2025, 30 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1960 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Barret has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,537, in 1983. In 2025 it ranked #3,669.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #3,669 |
| Best rank | #1,537 (1983) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,928 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Barret alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Barret were born in Texas than in any other state: about 52 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Barret was given about 4.9 times as often in Texas.
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