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Barron: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 320 in 2025. Its best rank was #750 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #750 in 1966; #790 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Barron in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#790 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #750.
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Barron: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 320 boys in 2025. Peak: #750 in 1966 · most boys in one year: 320 (2025).
In 2025, 320 US boys were named Barron, making it the 790th most common boys’ name of the year, up 229 places from #1,019 in 2024. That is 101 more than the 219 boys named Barron in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #750, reached in 1966. The most boys given the name in a single year was 320, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,958 in 2015 and #1,342 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Barron in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 5,647 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,063 babies named Barron.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,523 US boys were named Barron; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 320. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,338 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Barron ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #258 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Baron (7,059 babies since 1880) and Bayron (1,669 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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.
No nicknames listed for Barron in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #258 | — |
| Nebraska | 7 | #340 | — |
| Kentucky | 10 | #454 | — |
| Minnesota | 10 | #517 | — |
| Michigan | 15 | #542 | — |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #574 | — |
| Alabama | 8 | #576 | — |
| Missouri | 9 | #599 | — |
| California | 43 | #644 | #2,602 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #649 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #688 | — |
| Indiana | 8 | #715 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #715 | — |
| Tennessee | 9 | #725 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #729 | — |
| Texas | 36 | #752 | #1,250 |
| Florida | 20 | #755 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #799 | — |
| New York | 13 | #956 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,027 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,106 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,308 | #1,199 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 320 | #790 |
| 2024 | — | — | 219 | #1,019 |
| 2023 | — | — | 128 | #1,421 |
| 2022 | — | — | 121 | #1,496 |
| 2021 | — | — | 138 | #1,340 |
| 2020 | — | — | 137 | #1,313 |
| 2019 | — | — | 107 | #1,564 |
| 2018 | — | — | 122 | #1,433 |
| 2017 | — | — | 136 | #1,322 |
| 2016 | — | — | 95 | #1,665 |
| 2015 | — | — | 74 | #1,958 |
| 2014 | — | — | 71 | #2,001 |
| 2013 | — | — | 73 | #1,915 |
| 2012 | — | — | 62 | #2,156 |
| 2011 | — | — | 66 | #2,036 |
| 2010 | — | — | 89 | #1,715 |
| 2009 | — | — | 61 | #2,186 |
| 2008 | — | — | 76 | #1,900 |
| 2007 | — | — | 79 | #1,831 |
| 2006 | — | — | 68 | #1,973 |
| 2005 | — | — | 39 | #2,756 |
| 2004 | — | — | 22 | #4,019 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,790 |
| 2002 | — | — | 31 | #2,952 |
| 2001 | — | — | 38 | #2,523 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,335 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,405 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,161 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #1,993 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,873 |
| 1995 | — | — | 33 | #2,356 |
| 1994 | — | — | 42 | #1,982 |
| 1993 | — | — | 45 | #1,850 |
| 1992 | — | — | 63 | #1,454 |
| 1991 | — | — | 49 | #1,678 |
| 1990 | — | — | 55 | #1,531 |
| 1989 | — | — | 43 | #1,766 |
| 1988 | — | — | 50 | #1,503 |
| 1987 | — | — | 45 | #1,563 |
| 1986 | — | — | 57 | #1,286 |
| 1985 | — | — | 39 | #1,621 |
| 1984 | — | — | 39 | #1,557 |
| 1983 | — | — | 38 | #1,564 |
| 1982 | — | — | 45 | #1,416 |
| 1981 | — | — | 49 | #1,336 |
| 1980 | — | — | 54 | #1,260 |
| 1979 | — | — | 46 | #1,373 |
| 1978 | — | — | 52 | #1,240 |
| 1977 | — | — | 50 | #1,252 |
| 1976 | — | — | 42 | #1,376 |
| 1975 | — | — | 42 | #1,345 |
| 1974 | — | — | 58 | #1,082 |
| 1973 | — | — | 54 | #1,108 |
| 1972 | — | — | 61 | #1,034 |
| 1971 | — | — | 76 | #933 |
| 1970 | — | — | 83 | #886 |
| 1969 | — | — | 79 | #861 |
| 1968 | — | — | 64 | #899 |
| 1967 | — | — | 69 | #862 |
| 1966 | — | — | 97 | #750 |
| 1965 | — | — | 88 | #789 |
| 1964 | — | — | 84 | #824 |
| 1963 | — | — | 79 | #851 |
| 1962 | — | — | 76 | #873 |
| 1961 | — | — | 57 | #1,037 |
| 1960 | — | — | 66 | #928 |
| 1959 | — | — | 73 | #899 |
| 1958 | — | — | 47 | #1,115 |
| 1957 | — | — | 41 | #1,215 |
| 1956 | — | — | 60 | #966 |
| 1955 | — | — | 45 | #1,105 |
| 1954 | — | — | 62 | #939 |
| 1953 | — | — | 39 | #1,191 |
| 1952 | — | — | 34 | #1,273 |
| 1951 | — | — | 34 | #1,262 |
| 1950 | — | — | 29 | #1,342 |
| 1949 | — | — | 33 | #1,253 |
| 1948 | — | — | 33 | #1,258 |
| 1947 | — | — | 35 | #1,236 |
| 1946 | — | — | 29 | #1,299 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,856 |
| 1944 | — | — | 19 | #1,580 |
| 1943 | — | — | 19 | #1,642 |
| 1942 | — | — | 20 | #1,590 |
| 1941 | — | — | 20 | #1,535 |
| 1940 | — | — | 15 | #1,805 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,171 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,667 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,214 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,468 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,404 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,131 |
| 1933 | — | — | 16 | #1,775 |
| 1932 | — | — | 16 | #1,853 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,114 |
| 1930 | — | — | 14 | #2,090 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,585 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,168 |
| 1926 | — | — | 13 | #2,312 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,441 |
| 1924 | — | — | 13 | #2,357 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,784 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,358 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,387 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,614 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,771 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,125 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,292 |
| 1916 | — | — | 13 | #2,160 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,113 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #2,859 |
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).