Meaning and history
Barry is the Anglicized form of Barra. It became popular in the English-speaking world outside Ireland in the middle of the 20th century.
20062006: 169 births, rank #1,058
2007: 159 births, rank #1,129
2008: 157 births, rank #1,154
2009: 149 births, rank #1,209
2010: 120 births, rank #1,390
20112011: 119 births, rank #1,395
2012: 113 births, rank #1,458
2013: 103 births, rank #1,540
2014: 124 births, rank #1,375
2015: 142 births, rank #1,266
20162016: 170 births, rank #1,134
2017: 136 births, rank #1,321
2018: 155 births, rank #1,207
2019: 144 births, rank #1,287
2020: 135 births, rank #1,325
20212021: 121 births, rank #1,479
2022: 124 births, rank #1,457
2023: 104 births, rank #1,650
2024: 131 births, rank #1,413
20252025: 114 births, rank #1,520
Barry moved from #867 to #958 for boys between 2003 and 2004. Its highest annual birth count came in 1962, with 6,585 births.