Names of Barbados BB

Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice (2025) records Anthony as the commonest given name in Barbados and Clarke as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish Barbados from the rest of the world are Mhizz, Alleyne and Brathwaite.

Written in English.

Population
295K
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
2.8K
ABuilt from 2 official registers (2025), 2,785 name forms in our corpus.

Official registers for given names and surnames, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Barbados are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Barbados included.

How names work in Barbados

Names in Barbados follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Barbados

Counts decedents · authority tier 2
Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice, 2025 — 1,405 given names counted over decedents.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Anthony28—
2David25—
3Michael23—
4Charles22—
5Dorothy21—
5Henderson21—
6George20—
6John20—
7Richard19—
8Winston18—
9Joan17—
10Shirley16—
10Trevor16—
10Victor16—
11Cynthia15—
11Joseph15—
11Muriel15—
12Evelyn14—
12Gloria14—
12James14—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice 2025Across all recordsanthony: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. anthonynot rankeddavid: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. davidnot rankedmichael: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. michaelnot rankedcharles: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. charlesnot rankeddorothy: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. dorothynot rankedhenderson: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. hendersonnot rankedgeorge: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. georgenot rankedjohn: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. johnnot rankedrichard: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. richardnot rankedwinston: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. winstonnot rankedjoan: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. joannot rankedshirley: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. shirleynot rankedtrevor: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. trevornot rankedvictor: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. victornot rankedcynthia: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. cynthianot rankedjoseph: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. josephnot rankedmuriel: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. murielnot rankedevelyn: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. evelynnot rankedgloria: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. glorianot rankedjames: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. jamesnot rankedjoyce: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. joycenot rankedlionel: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. lionelnot rankedmarjorie: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. marjorienot rankedmaureen: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. maureennot rankedyvonne: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. yvonnenot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice, 2025 on the left; every record we hold for Barbados on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Barbados

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Barbados holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

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Sized by how much of the difference between Barbados's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Saintsurname(measured from records)
Incsurname(measured from records)
Foreigngiven name(measured from records)
Hendrixsurname(measured from records)
Alleynesurname(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Barbados, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Barbados?
Anthony, according to Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice (2025), with 28 bearers recorded.
What is the most common surname in Barbados?
Clarke, according to Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice (2025), with 61 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Barbados?
Because they count different people. Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice (2025) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Anthony. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Mhizz. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Barbados”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/BB (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice.