This page shows the Barbara (girls) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2018. Each row below is one year in which Barbara was recorded as a first name for girls in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Barbara's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for girls that year.

The record for Barbara for girls sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Barbara appears in 31 of them, from 1974 to 2018, with 689 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1974, when the table records 75 babies given the name, at rank 94 among all first names for girls that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2018; years in which the table records no row for Barbara for girls are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2018. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among girls' first names
20186502
20155566
20143802
20125580
20114674
20063722
19984558
19973653
19964531
19954545
19945484
19936462
19928379
19915454
19909344
19898345
198813263
198714251
198616234
198525184
198435149
198323192
198230163
198146132
198049125
197952119
197845124
197755107
19766699
197563104
19747594

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