Barirah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ba-REE-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Barirah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Barirah mean?
Arabic: classical Arabic name
Barira was a freed slave in the household of Aisha, the Prophet's wife; hadith record her choice to leave her husband.
Is Barirah a girl's or a boy's name?
Barirah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Barirah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,276among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 100% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Barirah, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 7 girls.
Half of all the girls named Barirah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 33 girls in the UK were given Barirah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #977, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Barirah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
Names like Barirah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah Safa Aaliyah Ayah Zainab Ruqayyah Sumayyah Abeeha Umaymah Aaminah Hafsa Aafiyah
Other spellings of Barirah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
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, “Barirah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/barirah, updated 20 October 2026.