Meaning not yet researched.
Baruch: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,999 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,999 in 2023; #2,260 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Baruch in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,260 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,999.
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Baruch: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,999 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 76 (2023).
In 2025, 62 US boys were named Baruch, making it the 2,260th most common boys’ name of the year, down 68 places from #2,192 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 66 boys named Baruch in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,999, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 76. For comparison, it was #2,607 in 2015 and #3,350 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Baruch in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 5 babies. In all, 1,954 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 471 babies named Baruch.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 566 US boys were named Baruch; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,550 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Baruch ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #547 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ben (85,816 babies since 1880), Bennett (74,854 babies since 1880), Benito (14,804 babies since 1880) and Benedict (10,475 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Baruc and Baruk are summarised on this page.
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: Baruc (107), Baruk (14).
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 Baruch 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 13 | #547 | #864 |
| New York | 23 | #641 | #553 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 62 | #2,260 |
| 2024 | — | — | 66 | #2,192 |
| 2023 | — | — | 76 | #1,999 |
| 2022 | — | — | 71 | #2,100 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,733 |
| 2020 | — | — | 61 | #2,237 |
| 2019 | — | — | 35 | #3,266 |
| 2018 | — | — | 62 | #2,213 |
| 2017 | — | — | 41 | #2,897 |
| 2016 | — | — | 46 | #2,663 |
| 2015 | — | — | 47 | #2,607 |
| 2014 | — | — | 51 | #2,465 |
| 2013 | — | — | 48 | #2,534 |
| 2012 | — | — | 41 | #2,873 |
| 2011 | — | — | 45 | #2,665 |
| 2010 | — | — | 55 | #2,328 |
| 2009 | — | — | 35 | #3,229 |
| 2008 | — | — | 26 | #3,935 |
| 2007 | — | — | 45 | #2,687 |
| 2006 | — | — | 29 | #3,530 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,570 |
| 2004 | — | — | 34 | #2,956 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,290 |
| 2002 | — | — | 23 | #3,676 |
| 2001 | — | — | 33 | #2,810 |
| 2000 | — | — | 33 | #2,744 |
| 1999 | — | — | 41 | #2,232 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,398 |
| 1997 | — | — | 23 | #3,166 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,925 |
| 1995 | — | — | 31 | #2,449 |
| 1994 | — | — | 27 | #2,691 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,054 |
| 1992 | — | — | 20 | #3,233 |
| 1991 | — | — | 35 | #2,099 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,437 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,699 |
| 1988 | — | — | 28 | #2,201 |
| 1987 | — | — | 28 | #2,120 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,901 |
| 1985 | — | — | 21 | #2,433 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,713 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,144 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,717 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,432 |
| 1980 | — | — | 26 | #2,065 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,786 |
| 1978 | — | — | 16 | #2,678 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #2,921 |
| 1976 | — | — | 14 | #2,840 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,768 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,146 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,729 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,006 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,787 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,700 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,127 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,788 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,007 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #3,967 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,094 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,872 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,063 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,558 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,076 |
| 1959 | — | — | 12 | #2,427 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #3,994 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,840 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,507 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #3,926 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,193 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #3,849 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,260 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,350 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,717 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,372 |
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).