Bareerah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ba-REE-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Bareerah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “pious; righteous”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Bareerah mean?
Arabic: Arabic Barira
“pious; righteous”
Barirah, a freed slave woman, was a companion of Aisha in early Islam.
Is Bareerah a girl's or a boy's name?
Bareerah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bareerah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 4% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Bareerah, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 16 girls.
Half of all the girls named Bareerah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 33 girls in the UK were given Bareerah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #977, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Bareerah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,480 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 16 | #1,904 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 12 | #2,363 |
| 2015 | 11 | #2,458 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 10 | #2,666 |
| 2011 | 7 | #3,360 |
| 2010 | 7 | #3,308 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,957 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
Names like Bareerah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Aaliyah, Safa, Ayah, Zainab, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah, Aaminah, Khadija, Amira, Abeeha, Hafsa
Other spellings of Bareerah
Bareera, Barira, Barirah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Bareerah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bareerah, updated 20 October 2026.