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Berkeley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 71 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,763 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,763 in 2017; #2,490 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Berkeley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,490 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,763.
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Berkeley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 71 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,763 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 119 (2017).
In 2025, 71 US girls were named Berkeley, making it the 2,490th most common girls’ name of the year, down 98 places from #2,392 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 76 girls named Berkeley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,763, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 119. For comparison, it was #1,885 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Berkeley, making it the 7,743rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,300 places from #10,043 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 7 boys named Berkeley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,940, reached in 1934. The most boys given the name in a single year was 21, in 2013. For comparison, it was #5,319 in 2015 and #3,734 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Berkeley in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 2,973 US babies have been given the name, 70% of them girls and 30% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,137 babies named Berkeley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 946 US girls were named Berkeley; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 119. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,638 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Berkeley ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,301 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Berkely are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Berkely (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Berkeley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,301 | #1,253 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,061 | #1,153 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,490 | 10 | #7,743 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,392 | 7 | #10,043 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,273 | 11 | #7,347 |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,321 | 15 | #5,912 |
| 2021 | 89 | #2,120 | 12 | #6,757 |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,909 | 10 | #7,588 |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,973 | 18 | #5,181 |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,776 | 17 | #5,349 |
| 2017 | 119 | #1,763 | 14 | #6,094 |
| 2016 | 117 | #1,778 | 16 | #5,591 |
| 2015 | 108 | #1,885 | 17 | #5,319 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,216 | 14 | #6,029 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,218 | 21 | #4,484 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,403 | 20 | #4,710 |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,158 | 21 | #4,525 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,455 | 12 | #6,734 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,050 | 10 | #7,751 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,062 | 16 | #5,520 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,434 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,626 | 9 | #8,070 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,373 | 13 | #5,908 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,511 | 16 | #5,036 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,109 | 10 | #6,782 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,480 | 10 | #6,590 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,225 | 8 | #7,606 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,169 | 8 | #7,514 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,460 | 11 | #5,693 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,395 | 14 | #4,672 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,036 | 7 | #7,361 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,192 | 8 | #6,561 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,246 | 9 | #5,969 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,156 | 11 | #5,136 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,304 | 8 | #6,281 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,130 | 6 | #7,516 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,482 | 7 | #6,581 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,340 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,003 | 10 | #4,849 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,004 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,381 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,207 | 6 | #6,005 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,628 | 7 | #5,199 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,252 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,423 | 7 | #4,975 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,336 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,233 | — | — |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #4,896 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,654 | 6 | #5,129 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,424 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,239 | 5 | #5,553 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,096 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,374 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #4,981 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #3,878 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,590 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,267 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #3,993 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,569 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,098 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,087 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,669 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,116 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,695 |
| 1959 | — | — | 14 | #2,207 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,841 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #2,990 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #2,982 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,871 |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,691 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,509 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,734 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,337 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,351 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,515 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,549 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,583 |
| 1943 | — | — | 9 | #2,574 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,503 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #2,901 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,624 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,500 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,882 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,693 |
| 1934 | — | — | 14 | #1,940 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,308 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,115 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,889 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,797 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,612 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,532 |
| 1926 | — | — | 11 | #2,583 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,263 |
| 1924 | — | — | 15 | #2,139 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,049 | 6 | #3,860 |
| 1922 | — | — | 12 | #2,501 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,558 |
| 1920 | — | — | 12 | #2,472 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,692 |
| 1918 | — | — | 13 | #2,273 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,251 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,117 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,472 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,530 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).