Berkeley
#2,485 for girls in 2025, 71 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 69.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 119 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,073since 1923
Berkeley over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,485 | 71 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #2,389 | 76 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #2,269 | 81 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #2,319 | 80 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #2,119 | 89 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #1,908 | 100 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #1,971 | 98 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #1,774 | 115 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | #1,761 | 119 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #1,775 | 117 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #1,883 | 108 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #2,213 | 85 | #5,997 | 14 |
| 2013 | #2,211 | 84 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #2,401 | 77 | #4,686 | 20 |
| 2011 | #2,156 | 88 | #4,509 | 21 |
| 2010 | #2,451 | 76 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #3,047 | 56 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #3,054 | 56 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #3,428 | 48 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #3,617 | 43 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #3,366 | 45 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #4,209 | 29 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | — | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,818 | 9 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,495 | 10 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,498 | 10 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,534 | 9 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,574 | 8 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #2,491 | 9 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,609 | 8 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,932 | 14 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,092 | 7 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,781 | 9 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,522 | 11 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #2,566 | 11 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,132 | 15 | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | #3,822 | 6 |
| 1922 | — | #2,486 | 12 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,517 | 7 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,459 | 12 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,260 | 13 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,457 | 8 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1923
The first year at least five girls were named Berkeley! It came in at #4,967, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 96 spots since 2024 (#2,389 → #2,485)
- 577 spots since 2020 (#1,908 → #2,485)
- 602 spots since 2015 (#1,883 → #2,485)
Rise & fade · girls
94 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2017 at #1,761 (119 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,508
- Highest: 1 in 14,508 girls born in 2017 were named Berkeley (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,638 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 46.6% of all girls named Berkeley (967) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1984
- Mostly boys until 1983, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,967 (1923) | #4,967 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 18 | #7,173 (1975) | #8,340 |
| 1980s | 69 | #6,156 (1986) | #8,508 |
| 1990s | 143 | #5,010 (1997) | #6,625 |
| 2000s | 374 | #3,047 (2009) | #4,090 |
| 2010s | 967 | #1,761 (2017) | #2,060 |
| 2020s | 497 | #1,908 (2020) | #2,248 |
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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