Barrett
The boy's name Barrett has been in the national records since 1886, with 34,417 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 171st. About 33,000 Barretts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Barrett boys named Barrett
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 34,417
- Estimated living today
- 33,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 171st
- Rank in 2025
- 171st
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 992 / 33,425
How old the living Barretts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 34,417 babies given the name since 1886, about 33,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 24,000 of them are children and 650 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 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.
Notable Barretts
- Barrett Foa (born 1977)American actor
- Barrett Strong (1941–2023)American singer and songwriter
- Jacob Barrett Laursen (born 1994)Danish footballer
People named Barrett with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Barrett is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Barrett is most concentrated in Nebraska (3.2×), Alaska (2.2×), Idaho (2.1×), Wyoming (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Barrett peaked:
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Barrett against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.