Barbie
About 4,204 American babies have been named Barbie since 1936, most of them around 1964. In 2025 it ranked 4,265th. About 3,800 Barbies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 51.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Barbie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,204
- Estimated living today
- 3,800
- Median age today
- 51
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 756th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,265th
- First recorded
- 1936
How old the living Barbies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,204 babies given the name since 1936, about 3,800 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 560 of them are children and 430 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1974 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Barbies
- Barbie Ferreira (born 1996)American model and actress
- Barbie Hsu (1976–2025)Taiwanese actress, singer and television presenter
People named Barbie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Barbie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Barbie is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (6.5×), Texas (1.5×), Kentucky (1.4×), California (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular girls’ names the year Barbie peaked:
Related names
Barbie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.