Baruch
Masculine · “blessed”
Baruch is blessed in Hebrew — and Jeremiah's scribe of that name wrote the scroll a king burned three columns at a time.
How old is the name Baruch?
Baruch first appears in US birth records in 1945 — 80 years ago. The typical Baruch alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,900 people named Baruch are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Baruch most popular?
Baruch peaked in 2023, reaching #1999 nationally. Today it ranks #2258, 259 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From barukh to Baruch
The story of Baruch
Baruch ben Neriah wrote Jeremiah's prophecies from dictation, and Jehoiakim cut the scroll column by column and burned it in a brazier; Jeremiah dictated it again. Baruch Spinoza was excommunicated at twenty-three. The name is standard in Orthodox communities and is in current American use.
Meaning
blessed
From the Hebrew barukh, 'blessed', from the root b-r-k, which also gives berekh, 'knee' — kneeling and blessing being one word. Every Jewish blessing opens barukh atah. The Hebrew is transparent and undisputed.
How the name formed
- barukh
- Baruch
Related forms: ברוך · Borech · Baruc
Pronouncing Baruch
bah-ROOKH
Two syllables, stress on the second. The ch is a throat sound as in Bach.
Nicknames for Baruch
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
- 1945
- Most boys named
- 202376 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1999reached in 2023
- Change vs 2023
- −18.4%62 in 2025, from 76
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.
Baruch in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- ברוך in Hebrew — transliteration
- Borech in Yiddish — related form
- Baruc in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey, Florida.
Baruchs among us
people named Baruch are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 27,550 born in 2025 was named Baruch
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Boe test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Baruch's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Boe climbed just as high around 1982, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Boe's path sketches the road Baruch is walking now.
Baruch sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Baruch is headed
Baruch looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 16% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Baruch beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Baruch in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the king burned the scroll and it was simply rewritten is a first-rate story.
- That blessing and knee are one Hebrew root is a genuinely good detail.
- Spinoza is a first-rate bearer.
- The final ch is mispronounced by nearly all English speakers.
- It reads as specifically Jewish and observant.
- Baruch and Boruch are both in circulation.
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Masculine · #2258 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Baruchs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Baruch are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Baruch in 2025?
- Baruch ranks #2258 among US boy names in 2025, with 62 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Baruch?
- About 1 in every 27,550 US boys born in 2025 was named Baruch — 62 in all.
- Will my child share the name Baruch with classmates?
- Baruch will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Baruch
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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