Given name & surname
Barack
“of the lightning flash”
Barack is a variant of Barak. One Hebrew interpretation is “of the lightning flash.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Barack is a variant of Barak. One Hebrew interpretation is “of the lightning flash.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Barack is a variant of Barak. An origin associated with Barak is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Barack through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 312
- 312 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 71 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,858 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −58%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,858 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 71 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 317 as a first name in 2020; 189 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Barack’s family of names
In English usage, Barack has a diminutive in Barry. In English usage, Barack has a conventional equivalent in the Turkish form BURAK. Barack has a related form in Barak.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Barack has relatives in 29 languages.
24 related names in 29 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 33
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Benedictequivalent
- Benequivalent
- Baruchequivalent
- Benedettoequivalent
- Bennoequivalent
- BurakTurkish
- Benoequivalent
- Bengtequivalent
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- Benedekequivalent
- Benedyktequivalent
- Bentequivalent
- Bendixequivalent
- Bendikequivalent
- 巴拉克borrowing · Chinese, Mandarin
- Ba-rắcVietnamese
- باراكUyghur
- براکUrdu
- Бара́кUkrainian, Russian
- บารักThai
- БаракSerbo-Croatian
- باراکPersian
- बराकNepali, Marathi
- BarackasLithuanian
- 버락Korean
- バラクJapanese
- ברוךHebrew
- ברקHebrew
- ΜπαράκGreek
- ბარაკGeorgian
- BarakoEsperanto
- Ꮖ̃ꮃꭹCherokee
- ԲարաքArmenian
- بَارَاكArabic
People named Barack
- Barack Obama44th President of the United States (2009–2017)born 1961
- Barack Obama Sr.economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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