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Baby name
Barbara
Girl
Origin of the name
Barbara comes from the Latin barbara, “foreign woman,” from barbarus. Saint Barbara is the patron saint of firefighters and artillerymen.
Classic name
1,436,695births since 1880
1940sgeneration
No. 4rank at its peak, in 1947
Where babies named Barbara are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Barbara is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Barbara is most common in District of Columbia (1.8 times), Rhode Island (1.6) and Vermont (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
One letter apart
- Barbra 7,758
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