Fewer than five US girls were named Barrie in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,002, reached in 1961. That year also had the most girls given the name: 117. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #2,547 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Barrie in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #859, reached in 1942. That year also had the most boys given the name: 58. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,538 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Barrie in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 10 babies. In all, 3,045 US babies have been given the name, 56% of them girls and 44% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 873 babies named Barrie.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Barrie.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Barry (182,036 babies since 1880) and Bari (1,964 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.