Barry
Fewer than 80 Polish men carry it, and no boys got it last year: most Poles have never met a Barry. From Latin, meaning "fair-haired".
Barry Pronunciation
Barry is pronounced BAHR-rih (/ˈbarrɨ/).
What Barry means
Where Barry comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Barry reaches back to Latin, and it settled into English speech as a first name in its own right. The meaning fixed to it is "fair-haired", a label for light hair rather than for rank or trade. A child called Barry was marked by colour first.
The name stands alone. There are no diminutives, no variants, no cross-gender twin. That plainness is part of why it reads as friendly in English, comfortable on a register and short enough to call across a room.
In Poland the name arrives mostly through English speakers and English film, so a boy named Barry in a class register sits a little apart from the Bartłomiejs beside him. On a form at the urząd it looks foreign among home-grown names. The Polish gloss keeps the old sense intact: jasnowłosy. Whatever the hair turns later, the name still says fair-haired.
How many people are named Barry
1 in 273669 men in Poland is named Barry. 78 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4022 among male names.
Barry as a middle name
Barry is a first name for 78 men in Poland and a middle name for another 54, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1017th, between Vijay (55) and Eberhard (54).
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#1015 Thierry55
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#1016 Vijay55
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#1017 Barry54
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#1018 Eberhard54
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#1019 Eliezer54