# Barrett (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/barrett/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 34,417 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 33,425 / 992 (3% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 26 | 5,234 |
| 2012 | 19 | 6,636 |
| 2013 | 20 | 6,289 |
| 2014 | 21 | 6,022 |
| 2015 | 25 | 5,313 |
| 2016 | 16 | 7,306 |
| 2017 | 32 | 4,408 |
| 2018 | 36 | 4,014 |
| 2019 | 31 | 4,456 |
| 2020 | 20 | 5,889 |
| 2021 | 35 | 4,107 |
| 2022 | 29 | 4,688 |
| 2023 | 30 | 4,579 |
| 2024 | 28 | 4,786 |
| 2025 | 40 | 3,725 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 626 | 436 |
| 2012 | 804 | 376 |
| 2013 | 878 | 359 |
| 2014 | 959 | 346 |
| 2015 | 1,142 | 313 |
| 2016 | 1,389 | 261 |
| 2017 | 1,612 | 234 |
| 2018 | 1,808 | 213 |
| 2019 | 1,863 | 209 |
| 2020 | 2,010 | 193 |
| 2021 | 1,962 | 193 |
| 2022 | 1,789 | 208 |
| 2023 | 1,787 | 206 |
| 2024 | 1,989 | 187 |
| 2025 | 2,138 | 171 |

## People named Barrett

- Barrett Foa, American actor
- Barrett Strong, American singer and songwriter (1941–2023)
- Jacob Barrett Laursen, Danish footballer
- Barrett Deems, American musician (1914–1998)
- Barrett Wilbert Weed, American singer and actress
- Barrett Martin, American drummer
- Barrett Brown, American journalist, essayist and satirist
- Barrett Hayton, Canadian ice hockey player
- Barrett Wendell, American academic
- Barrett Blade, American pornographic actor
- Robert Barrett Browning, British artist (1849-1912)
- Barry Watson, American actor

## 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.