Barbora

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Barbora: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Barbora: Recorded since 2005, it reached #661 in 2016, and it stood at #5,687 in 2023.

2registrars recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
19years from first to last
#661highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#4798
2007	#4294
2008	#5545
2009	#4564
2010	#3156
2011	#4049
2012	#3681
2013	#2460
2014	#2862
2015	#2945
2016	#2966
2017	#2502
2018	#2340
2019	#4001
2020	#5493
2021	#3961
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 17 of the 19 years from 2005 to 2023.

In 2017: #873 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2502 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2005–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #4798 among girls in England and Wales in 2005 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2010–2017
Highest recorded position: #661 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2016 (recorded 2010–2017).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #5687 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Barbora appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 17 years beginning in 2005, and has registered 103 births with the name.

Barbora across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Barbora's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4798 (2005)	#2340 (2018)	#5687 (2023)	17 of 19	103 (2005–2023)	11 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#758 (2010)	#661 (2016)	#873 (2017)	5 of 8	18 (2010–2017)	5 (2016)

Barbora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Barbora in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	14	4 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	78	10 of 10	8
2020s	11	3 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Barbora appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2005 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #661 in Republic of Ireland in 2016.

Barbora's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2340	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2966	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2460	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2005 and 2023, ranked in 17 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #661, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 5 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Baran · #795, 29y
Barbara · #10, 79y
Barbro · #117, 52y
Bård · #62, 70y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Annaleigh · #661, 19y
Cadence · #661, 21y
Afonso · #660, 21y
Nicolae · #660, 15y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Cadence · #661, 21y
Afonso · #660, 21y
Mia-Lily · #660, 9y
Nicolae · #660, 15y

Barbora was ranked #661 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Barbora and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Barbora without appearing here.

Barbora moved ahead of

Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3681 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2862 and #5691.
Finlay Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4564 and #4564 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #3156 and #5707.
Kerry Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3681 and #2215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2460 and #4739.
Jeanette Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4049 and #4049 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.

Moved ahead of Barbora

Carter Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4001 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #3117.
Noah Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2340 and #2499 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #4001 and #2869.
Cooper Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3961 and #5581 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #4709.
Hunter Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2340 and #2901 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #4001 and #3151.

Moved the opposite way to Barbora

Helene Compare
Between 2005 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Barbora went from #4798 to #2340 while Helene went from #2970 to #4684.
Rory Compare
Between 2010 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Barbora went from #3156 to #5687 while Rory went from #5707 to #1469.
Fiadh Compare
Between 2013 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Barbora went from #2460 to #5687 while Fiadh went from #5742 to #404.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2005 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #661 in Republic of Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Barbora

Barbora at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Barbora across 2 official records

Barbora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Barbora appears in

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Barbora at a glance

Barbora across 2 official records

Barbora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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