How Many People Are Named Barrie?
people named Barrie are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 162,445 people in the US has this name
Based on 3,045 babies named Barrie in Social Security records from 1924 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
147 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of BARRY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Barrie in English. Counting Barrie and these spellings together, about 129,021 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Barrie, 65.9% were girls and 34.1% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Barrie rose from 22.1% in the 1930s to 70.2% in the 1980s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Barrie alive today is about 62 years old, and 63% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 55 and 72 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Barrie first appears in the records in 1924 and was given most often in 1961, to 147 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.
Babies given the name each year, 1924 to 2022
🏆 Rank History
Barrie has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,002, in 1961. Among boys, its best rank was #859, in 1942.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,002 (1961) | #859 (1942) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,360 in the 1960s | #1,052 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Barrie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Barrie were born in New York than in any other state: about 234 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Barrie was given 5.2 times as often in New York, 3 times in Pennsylvania and 2 times in California.
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