Barry
47,279 people in the United States were counted with the surname Barry in the 2020 census, making it the 708th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,322.
By the numbers
- People
- 47,279
- Rank
- 708th
- How common
- 1 in 6,322
- Per 100,000
- 15.8
Where the name comes from
Origin Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Bairre, short form of Fionnbharr, from fionn (“white”) + barr (“head”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Barry described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Barry
- John Barry (1933–2011)British composer and conductor
- Gareth Barry (born 1981)English association football player
- Madame du Barry (1743–1793)French noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)
- Rick Barry (born 1944)American basketball player
- Boubacar Barry (born 1979)Ivorian footballer
- Dave Barry (born 1947)American writer
- James Barry (1789–1865)19th-century military surgeon in the British Army
- Gene Barry (1919–2009)American stage, screen, and television actor
People named Barry with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Barry
Also a first name
Barry has been given to 182,036 American babies as a first name since 1883, peaking in 1962. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.