Meaning not yet researched.
Barbie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #756 in 1964.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #756 in 1964; #4,277 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Barbie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,277 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1964, at #756.
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Barbie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 girls in 2025. Peak: #756 in 1964 · most girls in one year: 190 (1964).
In 2025, 33 US girls were named Barbie, making it the 4,277th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,149 places from #3,128 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 51 girls named Barbie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #756, reached in 1964. That year also had the most girls given the name: 190. For comparison, it was #4,239 in 2015 and #2,349 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Barbie in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 5 babies. In all, 4,204 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,346 babies named Barbie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 324 US girls were named Barbie; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,705 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Barb (3,853 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Barbi, Barby and Barbee are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Barbara.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Barbi (586), Barby (155), Barbee (113), Barbe (36).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,277 | — | — |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,128 | — | — |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,204 | — | — |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,925 | — | — |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,891 | — | — |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,901 | — | — |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,815 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,596 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,755 | — | — |
| 2015 | 34 | #4,239 | — | — |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,342 | — | — |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,858 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,505 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,939 | — | — |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,206 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,958 | — | — |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,909 | — | — |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,970 | — | — |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,409 | — | — |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,042 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,085 | — | — |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,104 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,787 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,604 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,167 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,538 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,976 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,390 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,802 | — | — |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,473 | — | — |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,026 | — | — |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,687 | — | — |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,781 | — | — |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,579 | — | — |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,665 | — | — |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1977 | 94 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1976 | 89 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1975 | 83 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1974 | 76 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1971 | 105 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1970 | 118 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1969 | 97 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1968 | 121 | #939 | — | — |
| 1967 | 163 | #771 | — | — |
| 1966 | 118 | #929 | — | — |
| 1965 | 121 | #915 | — | — |
| 1964 | 190 | #756 | — | — |
| 1963 | 170 | #796 | — | — |
| 1962 | 152 | #855 | — | — |
| 1961 | 132 | #937 | — | — |
| 1960 | 82 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1959 | 68 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1958 | 62 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1957 | 45 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,158 | — | — |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,399 | — | — |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,056 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,592 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,897 | — | — |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,474 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,245 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).