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Barbie

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name2 syllables2 tokens

Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Recorded as

Girls

In 2025

#4,277 for girls

Peak

1964, #756

Since 1880

4,204 babies

On licences

87 dogs in New York

Charting: Barbie

Figure 1. Human babies named Barbie, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Barbie was given to 33 girls in 2025, ranking 4,277th for the year. It peaked in 1964, when it ranked 756th and went to 190 babies. It has appeared in 89 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 624 places since 2020. It is also on 87 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,329th among dogs there, and on 4 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Barbie, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Barbie yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Rare enough that the name is yours in the workspace, and common enough that it is a name.

Sources

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2025. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.

Barbie · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent