Barbi Popularity by Year

Follow Barbi across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Barbi birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1987	Girls	5	#11,325	Down 648 places
1985	Girls	5	#10,677	Down 1,533 places
1984	Girls	6	#9,144	Down 2,932 places
1983	Girls	10	#6,212	Up 159 places
1982	Girls	10	#6,371	Down 2,935 places
1981	Girls	24	#3,436	Down 636 places
1980	Girls	32	#2,800	Up 642 places
1979	Girls	23	#3,442	Down 641 places
1978	Girls	29	#2,801	Up 201 places
1977	Girls	26	#3,002	Down 338 places
1976	Girls	29	#2,664	Down 567 places
1975	Girls	41	#2,097	Up 825 places
1974	Girls	24	#2,922	Up 1,664 places
1973	Girls	12	#4,586	Up 207 places
1972	Girls	11	#4,793	Down 1,627 places
1971	Girls	21	#3,166	Down 716 places
1970	Girls	30	#2,450	Up 3,006 places
1969	Girls	8	#5,456	Down 1,846 places
1968	Girls	14	#3,610	Down 525 places
1967	Girls	17	#3,085	Down 499 places
1966	Girls	22	#2,586	Up 816 places
1965	Girls	14	#3,402	Down 1,054 places
1964	Girls	27	#2,348	Up 828 places
1963	Girls	16	#3,176	Down 254 places
1962	Girls	18	#2,922	Down 170 places
1961	Girls	20	#2,752	Down 23 places
1960	Girls	20	#2,729	Up 707 places
1959	Girls	13	#3,436	Up 489 places
1958	Girls	10	#3,925	Up 5 places
1957	Girls	10	#3,930	Up 537 places
1956	Girls	8	#4,467	Down 91 places
1955	Girls	8	#4,376	Down 409 places
1954	Girls	9	#3,967	Down 1,046 places
1953	Girls	14	#2,921	—