Berlin

#3,780 for girls in 2025, 39 births · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to girls 52.3% of the time

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Peak · girls
2011 · 97 births
Debut · girls
10 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,796
since 1918

Berlin over time

girlsboys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201918peak #2,017, 2011peak #984, 1916girlsboys
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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#3,78039#5,04519
2024#2,85758#4,20025
2023#3,38647#4,34324
2022#2,95656#3,46433
2021#2,95856#4,01126
2020#2,71261#3,57030
2019#3,33747#5,34017
2018#2,71163#7,13611
2017#2,74462#8,1409
2016#2,44675#12,1855
2015#2,40876#7,06611
2014#2,19486#12,1085
2013#2,40875#12,1365
2012#2,51672#9,7097
2011#2,01797#12,2875
2010#2,16790#10,7666
2009#2,31684#12,4915
2008#2,51175#9,8717
2007#2,64769—
2006#2,70166#10,6626
2005#3,21248#9,1157
2004#2,85156#11,3565
2003#5,79520—
2002#8,28012—
2001#15,3525#8,3397
2000#7,15814—
1999#6,48415#7,8747
1998#8,01611#8,4796
1997#5,62617—
1996#5,06519#7,1367
1995#5,22118#6,9927
1994#5,98415—
1993#5,20618—
1992#6,00815#6,1288
1991#4,49722#7,2716
1990#4,86819—
1989#5,83614#4,27112
1988#5,89513#6,4266
1987#7,3539#6,9515
1986—#5,9266
1985#8,3187#5,7856
1984——
1983#10,2755#6,2385
1982—#3,96610
1981—#4,9617
1980——
1979—#6,0565
1978—#5,7725
1977—#3,38611
1976—#4,0128
1975——
1974——
1973—#5,1015
1972—#3,9637
1971—#3,6588
1970—#2,62113
1969—#3,9356
1968—#4,1365
1967—#2,7609
1966—#2,7849
1965—#3,5376
1964—#2,8549
1963—#2,30013
1962—#2,67310
1961—#1,99717
1960—#2,31513
1959—#2,53011
1958—#2,50611
1957—#2,63110
1956—#2,7989
1955—#1,90217
1954—#2,7439
1953—#3,1437
1952—#1,85617
1951—#2,24612
1950—#2,01914
1949—#2,12313
1948#5,2435#1,81717
1947#5,2955#1,98815
1946—#2,03013
1945—#1,92613
1944—#1,98813
1943#4,6915#1,46123
1942—#1,53721
1941—#1,44622
1940#4,3495#1,36824
1939—#1,27227
1938—#1,43922
1937—#1,99213
1936—#1,38423
1935—#1,39024
1934—#1,49821
1933—#1,54020
1932—#1,58420
1931—#1,25330
1930—#1,42826
1929—#1,44325
1928—#1,38228
1927#4,2866#1,43627
1926—#1,16138
1925—#1,18436
1924#5,0615#1,24634
1923#3,6418#1,25633
1922#4,4456#1,15838
1921#5,0995#1,08642
1920#3,09710#1,08942
1919—#1,13937
1918#3,02410#1,17235
1917—#1,69319
1916—#98442
1915—#1,21729
1914—#1,10127
1913—#1,36515
1912—#1,17416
1911—#1,5376
1910—#1,4216
1909—#1,2776
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five girls were named Berlin! It came in at #3,024, and was given to 10 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1919, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Berlin is popular in 1918

No state had 5 or more girls named Berlin in 1918, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Berlin
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 923 spots since 2024 (#2,857 → #3,780)
  • 1,068 spots since 2020 (#2,712 → #3,780)
  • 1,372 spots since 2015 (#2,408 → #3,780)
Rise & fade · girls
93 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 2011 at #2,017 (97 births)
  • Births halved by 2019, 8 yrs later
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 18,135
  • Highest: 1 in 18,135 girls born in 2011 were named Berlin (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 41,212 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 41.4% of all girls named Berlin (743) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2002
  • Mostly boys until 2001, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s10#3,024 (1918)#3,024
1920s40#3,097 (1920)#4,272
1930s0——
1940s20#4,349 (1940)#4,895
1950s0——
1960s0——
1970s0——
1980s48#5,836 (1989)#7,535
1990s169#4,497 (1991)#5,698
2000s449#2,316 (2009)#5,282
2010s743#2,017 (2011)#2,495
2020s317#2,712 (2020)#3,108

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.

Berlin in 1918

girls
#3,024
10 births · 1 in 115,763 girls
boys
#1,172
35 births · 1 in 28,957 boys

Top girls' names in 1918

  1. #1Mary67,365
  2. #2Helen36,148
  3. #3Dorothy32,030
  4. #4Margaret27,139
  5. #5Ruth25,535
  6. #6Mildred17,258
  7. #7Virginia16,421
  8. #8Frances16,132
  9. #9Elizabeth15,853
  10. #10Anna15,666
  11. #3,024Berlin10

Top boys' names in 1918

  1. #1John56,558
  2. #2William45,291
  3. #3James42,115
  4. #4Robert40,619
  5. #5Charles26,921
  6. #6George26,318
  7. #7Joseph26,261
  8. #8Edward19,489
  9. #9Frank17,018
  10. #10Thomas13,910
  11. #1,172Berlin35
More about 1918

girls

1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 115,763 of them was named Berlin, which outranked 45.9% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Berlin
  1. #2,822Yasuko11
  2. #2,822Zell11
  3. #2,822Zoa11
  4. #3,024Berlin10
  5. #3,024Adalene10
  6. #3,024Adina10
  7. #3,024Adria10
  8. #3,244Adair9
  9. #3,244Adelena9
  10. #3,244Adena9

Tied with 219 names at #3,024; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1917
Risers
  1. ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
  2. ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
  3. ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
  4. ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
  5. ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Valentine#964 → #1,411
  2. ↓ 428Ottie#952 → #1,380
  3. ↓ 354Delora#923 → #1,277
  4. ↓ 318Georgene#896 → #1,214
  5. ↓ 299Clifford#904 → #1,203

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

boys

1,013,480 boys got a published name in 1918; 1 in 28,957 of them was named Berlin, which outranked 75.6% of the 4,813 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Berlin
  1. #1,152Sampson36
  2. #1,152Selmer36
  3. #1,152Virgel36
  4. #1,172Berlin35
  5. #1,172Allyn35
  6. #1,172Archer35
  7. #1,172Benjaman35
  8. #1,192Alice34
  9. #1,192Brice34
  10. #1,192Buel34

Tied with 19 names at #1,172; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1917
Risers
  1. ↑ 600Quinton#1,092 → #492
  2. ↑ 542Pershing#876 → #334
  3. ↑ 480Quentin#723 → #243
  4. ↑ 440Issac#1,264 → #824
  5. ↑ 339Furman#1,092 → #753
Fallers
  1. ↓ 473Bernhard#900 → #1,373
  2. ↓ 424Edson#919 → #1,343
  3. ↓ 394Gasper#919 → #1,313
  4. ↓ 352Berton#934 → #1,286
  5. ↓ 346Ishmael#997 → #1,343

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

See the top 100 for 1918 →