How Many People Are Named Baruch?
people named Baruch are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 182,772 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,954 babies named Baruch in Social Security records from 1945 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
76 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "blessed" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of a companion of the prophet Jeremiah, acting as his scribe and assistant. The deuterocanonical Book of Baruch was supposedly written by him. A famous bearer was Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), a Dutch-Jewish rationalist philosopher.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
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⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Baruch in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Baruch alive today is about 22 years old, and 69% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 34 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Baruch first appears in the records in 1945 and was given most often in 2023, to 76 babies. In 2025, 62 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1945 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Baruch has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,998, in 2023. In 2025 it ranked #2,260.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,260 |
| Best rank | #1,998 (2023) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,624 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Baruch alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Baruch were born in New York than in any other state: about 977 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Baruch was given 12.3 times as often in New York and 6.3 times in New Jersey.
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