Raman spectroscopy has been used to study the ferroelectric tetragonal to paraelectric cubic phase transition $T_c$ in undoped $\mathrm{Ba}\mathrm{Ti}{\mathrm{O}}_3$ (BT) and $\left({\mathrm{Ba}}_{0.92}{A}_{0.08}\right)\mathrm{Ti}{\mathrm{O}}_3$ [where $A=\mathrm{Ca}$ (BCT), Sr (BST), and Pb (BPT)]. In BT and BPT, mode characteristic of the tetragonal phase at 303 and $710{\mathrm{cm}}^{-1}$ persisted until $>50°\mathrm{C}$ above $T_c$ , indicating the presence of local dynamic polar clusters well above the displacive phase transitions, $\sim 120$ and $\sim 149°\mathrm{C}$ , respectively. However, in BCT and BST, the Raman spectra exhibited only broad second order bands above $T_c$ , suggesting that Ca and Sr, $A$ -site dopants supress local dynamic polar clusters.