Bergen
- #4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Given to girls 57.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 29 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 551since 1979
Bergen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 5 boys in 1928 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,661 | 29 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #5,537 | 25 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #4,395 | 22 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | #4,493 | 21 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #4,001 | 24 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | #3,536 | 23 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | — | |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | — | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | — | |
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| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
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| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
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| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bergen! It came in at #9,010, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1982, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Bergen is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Nebraska | #223 | 10 | 1 in 710 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bergen
- 4,885 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #4,661)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2025 at #4,661 (29 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 55,423 girls born in 2025 were named Bergen (0.00%)
- 31.6% of all girls named Bergen (174) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2022, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 6 | #9,010 (1979) | #9,010 |
| 1980s | 42 | #7,111 (1988) | #8,701 |
| 1990s | 110 | #5,039 (1999) | #8,279 |
| 2000s | 174 | #4,834 (2001) | #6,925 |
| 2010s | 131 | #6,036 (2015) | #9,002 |
| 2020s | 88 | #4,661 (2025) | #8,581 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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