The BARRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	45,044	691	0.017	167
United States (1880 census)	15,372	372	0.031	307
Change since 1880	+29672	-319	-0.014	-140
Other Countries
Australia	5,105	274	0.031	312
United Kingdom	10,599	560	0.023	231

Top States for BARRY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	4,519	102	0.071	712
New York	4,418	324	0.023	233
California	3,916	786	0.012	116
Florida	3,144	590	0.020	197
Pennsylvania	2,140	551	0.017	174
Top States for BARRY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	4,519	102	0.071	712
New Hampshire	640	210	0.052	518
Vermont	251	306	0.041	412
Rhode Island	400	246	0.038	382
Connecticut	1,242	213	0.036	365

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BARRY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BARRY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BARRY in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BARRY by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BARRY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BARRY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BARRY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BARRY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	784	1.74
Mixed Race	559	1.24
Asian/Pacific	257	0.57
Native American/Alaskan	185	0.41
White (Caucasian)	40,184	89.21
Black/African American	3,077	6.83

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BARRY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BARRY in historical publications

(origin: Local) From the Barry Islands in Glamorganshire, Wales; so called, says Bailey, from Baruch, a devout man who was interred there.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

BARRY. In some instances from the "Welsh ab Harry, the son of Henry ; but the Barrysof Eoclaveston, co. Notts., claim to be descended from Godfridus, who floiu-ished at Teversal, in that shire, temp. "Will. I. In the H.R. the surname appears without a prefix. There is a parish of Barry in co. Forfar.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to BARRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BARRY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.