Barrett

What Barrett means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Barrett yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 2,138 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Barrett?

US: Rising: up from #313 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 2,138 boys got the name (#171 that year). First in the US records in 1886.

How common

• About 1 in 799 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NE (5.9 per 1,000 boys), MT (5.05 per 1,000 boys), ND (4.47 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Barrett is #171 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.2% of US babies named Barrett were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Barret30 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Barrett

Boys

• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Elliot#151Variant of Elliott, meaning “my God is Yahweh”^*
• Arlo#148Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #15 vs #148 in 2025
• Elliott#160“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Weston#55Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #120 in 2015, #55 in 2025
• Waylon#56Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #222 in 2015, #56 in 2025

For a sister

• Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*
• Nora#20Form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Sloane#141Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #327 in 2015, #141 in 2025
• Ember#154Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #366 in 2015, #154 in 2025
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*
• Vera#205“faith”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Barrett’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.