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The first name 
Barrie

Barrie is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.

Barrie is a very rare first name!

At least in the US, the name Barrie is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Barrie each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Barrie will meet someone with the same name. So, Barrie is a very special name!

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Barrie

Barrie -
swimming against the tide

If your name is Barrie your parents may be very proud to let their child swim against the tide: The name Barrie never ranked higher than position 1,295 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their offspring Barrie. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1942 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Barrie because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Barrie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

2022 - looking for Barrie?

As in the last century, Barrie still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 5 times in the entire U.S. So, a Barrie from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.

Barrie has 6 letters 
and begins with a B

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.

With six letters, the name Barrie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 3.7%, B as the first letter in given names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Barrie

If your name is Barrie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Barrie

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Barrie, you can simply say:

Butterfly

Apple

Rocket

Rocket

Igloo

Elephant

This is how the name Barrie is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Barrie in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Barrie

Barrie

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Barrie

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Barrie is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

B
A
R
R
I
E

Have you ever waved the name Barrie

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

B
A
R
R
I
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Barrie sounds like this: