Barbaraann
Feminine · “foreign”
Barbaraann is two names written without the space between them, which is how a great deal of American paperwork handled a double name. The first of them is attached to gunpowder in a way that has outlasted the belief behind it.
How old is the name Barbaraann?
Barbaraann first appears in US birth records in 1934 — 91 years ago. The typical Barbaraann alive today was born around 1950, making them about 75 years old. About 500 people named Barbaraann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Barbaraann most popular?
Barbaraann peaked in 1941, reaching #1335 nationally. See the whole 1941 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Barbaraann
Saint Barbara is the patron of artillerymen, miners, tunnellers and anyone else who works with explosives, because the man who killed her in the legend was struck by lightning immediately afterwards. The association stuck hard enough to enter technical vocabulary: on a Spanish or Italian warship the powder magazine is called the santabárbara, and the word is still in naval dictionaries. Artillery units across Catholic Europe and Latin America keep her feast on the fourth of December, tunnelling crews put statues of her at the working face, and the Spanish army's artillery corps holds a formal celebration. She was removed from the universal calendar in nineteen sixty-nine on the grounds that nothing reliable is known about her, and the soldiers and miners went on regardless.
Meaning
foreign, joined to Anne
The Greek word meant a foreigner and imitated the sound of unintelligible speech. The second half is the Hebrew Hannah, meaning favor or grace. The compound is American and has no separate meaning; which half a family used day to day is not recorded.
Pronouncing Barbaraann
BAR-bruh-ann
Three syllables in ordinary American speech, since the middle of the first name reduces. Both halves keep a beat, which is the audible sign of a double name written solid.
Nicknames for Barbaraann
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1934
- Most girls named
- 194836 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1335reached in 1941
- Change vs 1996
- 0.0%5 in 2016, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Barbaraanns among us
people named Barbaraann are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Barbaraann sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both halves are common, so nothing has to be spelled out by sound.
- It collapses to either half and both are complete names.
- Written solid it occupies one field on a form instead of two.
- Barbara Ann and Barbara-Ann are both recorded, and systems will split or hyphenate it.
- A song fixed the two names together in a lot of heads.
- It reads as belonging firmly to one mid-century generation.
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- How many Barbaraanns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Barbaraann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Barbaraann in 2025?
- Barbaraann is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Barbaraann with classmates?
- Barbaraann will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More B names
The most-given names starting with B, all years combined.
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