# Barb (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/barb/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,853 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,853 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 440 | 454 |
| 1959 | 464 | 445 |
| 1960 | 493 | 440 |
| 1961 | 452 | 459 |
| 1962 | 351 | 522 |
| 1963 | 267 | 617 |
| 1964 | 225 | 682 |
| 1965 | 149 | 815 |
| 1966 | 78 | 1,213 |
| 1967 | 65 | 1,361 |
| 1968 | 32 | 2,129 |
| 1969 | 28 | 2,458 |
| 1970 | 25 | 2,782 |
| 1971 | 12 | 4,559 |
| 1972 | 9 | 5,509 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.