Barb
Barb is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 440th, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1960493 births
- Best rank
- #440in 1960
- Since 1938
- 3,853people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,853 girls have been named Barb in the United States since 1938, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 493 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 493 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1960s alone account for 56%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1960, its biggest year
Barb was the 440th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Barb
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pampeak 1959
- Bevpeak 1959
- Debbiepeak 1959
- Debpeak 1958
- Debipeak 1958
- Debbipeak 1958
- Debbypeak 1959
- Kimpeak 1960
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.