Baruch is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Baruch is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Baruch. In the SmartGenius ranking, Baruch is #2,271 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Baruch.
While Baruch isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it does seem to have attracted parents especially in the second half of last century. In 1980 the name Baruch reached its highest popularity with #1,828 in our ranking of all male first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their son Baruch. One might assume that this was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and boys in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Baruch.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Baruch was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 67 babies were born with the name Baruch. This puts the name in rank 1,932 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 2,409,343 newborns was named Baruch that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Baruch has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The first name Baruch is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 1,130 Americans in total bear this name. And these 1,130 men are located in only five states: California, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Baruch and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Baruch in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 13,595 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Baruch present.
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 boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Baruch 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.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Baruch 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Baruch, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Apple
Rocket
Unicorn
Cat
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Baruch
Baruch
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
A
R
U
C
H
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
U
C
H
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. Baruch sounds like this:
