Barrie

maleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
20times a registrar ranked it
51years from first to last
#234highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2022

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1998	#1821
2001	#2220
2003	#2189
2005	#3849
2007	#4333
2022	#4001

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

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 7 of the 27 years from 1996 to 2022.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1972–2022 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1972
First recorded at #307 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1972 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1972–1987
Highest recorded position: #234 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1984 (recorded 1972–1987).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2022
Most recently recorded at #4001 among boys in England and Wales, in 2022.
England and Wales · Boys

Barrie appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 1972, and has registered 46 births with the name.

Barrie 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.

Barrie'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 · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#1235 (1996)	#4001 (2022)	7 of 27	37 (1996–2022)	10 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#307 (1972)	#234 (1984)	#303 (1987)	12 of 16	46 (1972–1987)	6 (1974)

Barrie 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 1972 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #234 in Republic of Ireland in 1984.

Barrie'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
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#303	3	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	4	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#269	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#234	6	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#330	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#286	4	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#322	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#326	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#290	4	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#251	6	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#320	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	3	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.

Where Barrie is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Barrie, between 1972 and 2022, in 20 of those 51 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1972–1987	13	#234 in 1984
England and Wales	1996–2022	7	#1235 in 1996

Its high point came 12 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1984) than in England and Wales (1996).

No registrar recorded it for 14 years after 2007; it appears again in 2022.

Barrie was ranked #234 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1984. 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.

Christian#234
Clement#234
Domhnall#234
Dominick#234
Aengus#250
Angus#250
Aran#250
Calvin#250

Barrie 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Barrie without appearing here.

Barrie moved ahead of

Rodney
In 1983 they stood at #330 and #282 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 1984 that had become #234 and #274.

Moved ahead of Barrie

Hunter
In 2004 they stood at #2189 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3849 and #1135.
Mathias
In 2004 they stood at #2189 and #2470 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3849 and #1617.
Henrik
In 2004 they stood at #2189 and #2470 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3849 and #2174.
Tayla
In 2004 they stood at #2189 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3849 and #2174.

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 1972 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #234 in Republic of Ireland in 1984. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Barrie

Barrie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Barrie across 2 official records

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Popularity data

Where Barrie is officially recorded

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Barrie at a glance

Barrie across 2 official records

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