Berkley

#887 for girls in 2025, 301 births · #3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
Given to girls 71.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
2021 · 354 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
5,510
since 1952

Berkley over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201950peak #963, 1891girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#887301#3,45033
2024#878307#3,33535
2023#837327#3,29336
2022#822340#3,61731
2021#798354#3,29735
2020#822331#2,54650
2019#988261#2,80844
2018#946281#3,05538
2017#1,165211#2,75544
2016#1,110229#2,66146
2015#1,079243#2,60047
2014#1,074238#3,09036
2013#1,062234#2,46150
2012#1,111223#2,67845
2011#1,127217#3,23534
2010#1,244193#3,23934
2009#1,432163#3,55130
2008#1,657135#3,82327
2007#1,655134#4,37522
2006#1,691124#4,86518
2005#2,40773#5,87513
2004#2,67961#5,24615
2003#2,57762#4,42618
2002#3,52338#3,90921
2001#2,96348#4,89015
2000#3,59136#5,58812
1999#3,31338#3,98618
1998#3,22238#4,41315
1997#4,12526#6,1009
1996#3,50532#7,1367
1995#3,96926#4,50813
1994#3,79028#4,80312
1993#5,67316#4,44713
1992#6,65213#6,6707
1991#6,25314#5,9428
1990#8,5019#5,8238
1989#6,53112#6,2297
1988#11,7985#5,7517
1987#5,92312#4,5739
1986#8,5237#5,3327
1985#8,3187#4,05210
1984#5,53912#4,9737
1983#6,21210—
1982#10,5175#4,2349
1981#7,4098#5,4686
1980#10,3925#3,83810
1979#10,2105#4,4038
1978—#3,40011
1977——
1976—#2,60116
1975—#3,07812
1974#6,2588#2,94612
1973—#4,0547
1972#8,2925#3,15210
1971—#3,6588
1970—#2,39915
1969—#3,3148
1968—#2,10915
1967—#2,9858
1966—#2,32712
1965—#2,7809
1964—#2,8549
1963—#2,20014
1962—#2,36412
1961—#1,73122
1960—#2,21014
1959—#2,20014
1958—#1,83819
1957—#1,67323
1956—#2,01516
1955—#1,84518
1954—#1,82618
1953—#2,09914
1952#5,5635#2,51410
1951—#1,72519
1950—#1,53823
1949—#1,75418
1948—#1,88116
1947—#1,85017
1946—#1,75917
1945—#1,63317
1944—#2,19511
1943—#1,57720
1942—#2,5239
1941—#1,63318
1940—#1,43322
1939—#1,71216
1938—#1,74116
1937—#1,18031
1936—#1,41722
1935—#1,65618
1934—#1,26628
1933—#1,58619
1932—#1,50922
1931—#1,53821
1930—#1,28331
1929—#2,31712
1928—#1,29331
1927—#1,69221
1926—#1,51524
1925—#1,58323
1924—#1,38029
1923—#1,55124
1922—#1,76520
1921—#1,64822
1920—#1,50525
1919—#1,48124
1918—#1,76719
1917—#1,90016
1916—#1,33526
1915—#1,96814
1914—#1,44118
1913—#1,49713
1912—#1,35313
1911—#1,3877
1910—#1,5895
1909—#1,4405
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1903—#1,1305
1902—#1,1375
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First appearance
1952

The first year at least five girls were named Berkley! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1952–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Berkley is popular in 1950

No state had 5 or more girls named Berkley in 1950, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Berkley
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 9 spots since 2024 (#878 → #887)
  • 65 spots since 2020 (#822 → #887)
  • 192 spots since 2015 (#1,079 → #887)
  • Biggest jump: 219 spots in 2018 (#1,165 → #946)
  • Biggest drop: 42 spots in 2019 (#946 → #988)
Rise & fade · girls
69 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1952
  • Peaked 2021 at #798 (354 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 8 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2018–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,635
  • Highest: 1 in 4,635 girls born in 2021 were named Berkley (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 5,340 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 42.3% of all girls named Berkley (2,330) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1989
  • Mostly boys until 1988, mostly girls since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#5,563 (1952)#5,563
1960s0——
1970s18#6,258 (1974)#8,253
1980s83#5,539 (1984)#8,116
1990s240#3,222 (1998)#4,900
2000s874#1,432 (2009)#2,418
2010s2,330#946 (2018)#1,091
2020s1,960#798 (2021)#841

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.

Berkley in 1950

boys
#1,538
23 births · 1 in 77,837 boys

Top boys' names in 1950

  1. #1James86,228
  2. #2Robert83,553
  3. #3John79,412
  4. #4Michael65,136
  5. #5David60,729
  6. #6William60,680
  7. #7Richard51,003
  8. #8Thomas45,596
  9. #9Charles39,095
  10. #10Gary33,737
  11. #1,538Berkley23
More about 1950

boys

1,790,262 boys got a published name in 1950; 1 in 77,837 of them was named Berkley, which outranked 63.3% of the 4,196 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Berkley
  1. #1,499Watson24
  2. #1,499Werner24
  3. #1,499Winthrop24
  4. #1,538Berkley23
  5. #1,538Barrie23
  6. #1,538Blane23
  7. #1,538Chandler23
  8. #1,572Alphonzo22
  9. #1,572Berton22
  10. #1,572Bohdan22

Tied with 33 names at #1,538; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1949
Risers
  1. ↑ 744Ezzard#1,616 → #872
  2. ↑ 510Kelvin#1,085 → #575
  3. ↑ 447Nancy#1,297 → #850
  4. ↑ 420Samual#1,380 → #960
  5. ↑ 376Shaun#1,275 → #899
Fallers
  1. ↓ 371Sharon#885 → #1,256
  2. ↓ 369Melvyn#770 → #1,139
  3. ↓ 367Les#997 → #1,364
  4. ↓ 351Delmas#905 → #1,256
  5. ↓ 315Denzil#808 → #1,123

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1950 →