Feminine dossier · first seen 1938

Barb

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Barb
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1960

Peak rank proxy

493

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1938Peak 19602024

Peak year

1960

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

3,853

Barb has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1960, when 493 girls were named Barb.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 3,853 Americans have been named Barb and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1938.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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