Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Barre

#17,274 most common boys' name of all time · #45,134 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1940–1961

Rank among boys
#17,274
Rank overall
#45,134 of 105,966
First appeared
1940
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
75
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1955 #2,939
Best rank
#2,939 1955
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
19401960

Barre first appears in 1940. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1961 — 7 7 #3,572
1957 — 6 6 #3,888
1955 — 9 9 #2,939
1952 — 7 7 #3,329
1951 — 8 8 #3,047
1949 — 6 6 #3,649
1948 — 6 6 #3,635
1946 — 6 6 #3,505
1945 — 5 5 #3,753
1944 — 5 5 #3,866
1943 — 5 5 #4,003
1940 — 5 5 #3,907