Barbi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: derivado plural masculino de Barba (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/baɾbi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Barbi is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Barbi is also written ברבי in Hebrew.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 70K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 117K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 130Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Barbi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
3,993 named Barbie, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Barbi in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled ברבי in TN Tunisia, DZ Algeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Barbi
- Spanish:/baɾbi/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/bɐɾbi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)derivado plural masculino de Barba
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Barbi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,993as Barbie | 1 in 83K | 4K | Barbi | 221 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | ברבי | 5 |
| IN India | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 7.2M | — | Barbi | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 297K | 1 | Barbi | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 575K | listed | Barbi | 43 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | ברבי | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 5 | — | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | 18 | 1 in 117K | 18 | — | 4 |
3,993 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling barbie. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SURS — resident population given names; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Barbi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of barbiō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, a diminutive of the female given name Barbara
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, barb (type of cyprinid fish)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, inflection of barbar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Barbi Bentonb. 1950USAmerican former model, actress and singer
- Barbi Pilvreb. 1963EEEstonian politician and journalist (born 1963)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Barbi mean, and where does it come from?
- derivado plural masculino de Barba Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Barbi?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /baɾbi/; in Portuguese /bɐɾbi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Barbi a male or female name?
- Barbi is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Barbi?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Barbie, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Algeria, India, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Barbi?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 18 people named Barbi in 2025, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Barbi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barbiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Barbi” — ranked 4602nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.