Barret
About 1,389 American babies have been named Barret since 1960, most of them around 2019. In 2025 it ranked 3,658th. About 1,300 Barrets are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Barret boys named Barret
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,389
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 2,993rd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,658th
- First recorded
- 1960
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 1,384
How old the living Barrets are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,389 babies given the name since 1960, about 1,300 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Spelling variant of Barrett.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Barrets
- Barret Oliver (born 1973)American actor and photographer
- Barret Jackman (born 1981)Canadian ice hockey player
People named Barret with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Barret is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Barret is most concentrated in Texas (5.9×), California (4.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Barret peaked:
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Barret against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.