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Berkley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 301 in 2025. Its best rank was #798 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #798 in 2021; #888 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Berkley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#888 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #798.
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Berkley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 301 girls in 2025. Peak: #798 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 354 (2021).
In 2025, 301 US girls were named Berkley, making it the 888th most common girls’ name of the year, down 8 places from #880 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 307 girls named Berkley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #798, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 354. For comparison, it was #1,079 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Berkley, making it the 3,453rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 114 places from #3,339 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 35 boys named Berkley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #988, reached in 1891. The most boys given the name in a single year was 50, in 2020. For comparison, it was #2,608 in 2015 and #1,539 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Berkley in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 5 babies. In all, 7,712 US babies have been given the name, 71% of them girls and 29% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,748 babies named Berkley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,942 US girls were named Berkley; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 354. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,340 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Berkley ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #188 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Berklee (1,269 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Berklie, Birkley and Berkli are summarised on this page.
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We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Berklie (207), Birkley (84), Berkli (42), Birklee (28), Berkly (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 Berkley 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 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 17 | #188 | #364 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #201 | #223 |
| Nebraska | 10 | #227 | #320 |
| Kansas | 10 | #331 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #357 | — |
| Utah | 11 | #388 | #563 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #392 | — |
| Minnesota | 13 | #402 | — |
| Missouri | 12 | #485 | #754 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #538 | #951 |
| Ohio | 18 | #566 | — |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #571 | #484 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #582 | #509 |
| Alabama | 8 | #584 | #826 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #717 | #429 |
| Texas | 39 | #764 | #795 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #786 | #1,001 |
| Michigan | 9 | #799 | #1,131 |
| Washington | 7 | #830 | #1,147 |
| Virginia | 8 | #858 | #782 |
| Georgia | 10 | #923 | #738 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,129 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,569 | #1,877 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 301 | #888 | 33 | #3,453 |
| 2024 | 307 | #880 | 35 | #3,339 |
| 2023 | 327 | #838 | 36 | #3,303 |
| 2022 | 340 | #822 | 31 | #3,628 |
| 2021 | 354 | #798 | 35 | #3,308 |
| 2020 | 331 | #822 | 50 | #2,551 |
| 2019 | 261 | #990 | 44 | #2,814 |
| 2018 | 281 | #946 | 38 | #3,059 |
| 2017 | 211 | #1,167 | 44 | #2,761 |
| 2016 | 229 | #1,111 | 46 | #2,665 |
| 2015 | 243 | #1,079 | 47 | #2,608 |
| 2014 | 238 | #1,074 | 36 | #3,096 |
| 2013 | 234 | #1,063 | 50 | #2,463 |
| 2012 | 223 | #1,115 | 45 | #2,681 |
| 2011 | 217 | #1,127 | 34 | #3,243 |
| 2010 | 193 | #1,245 | 34 | #3,248 |
| 2009 | 163 | #1,432 | 30 | #3,564 |
| 2008 | 135 | #1,657 | 27 | #3,837 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,656 | 22 | #4,392 |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,694 | 18 | #4,881 |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,412 | 13 | #5,909 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,682 | 15 | #5,275 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,586 | 18 | #4,438 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,528 | 21 | #3,924 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,968 | 15 | #4,918 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,600 | 12 | #5,611 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,322 | 18 | #3,998 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,233 | 15 | #4,433 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,139 | 9 | #6,142 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,513 | 7 | #7,215 |
| 1995 | 26 | #3,986 | 13 | #4,537 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,797 | 12 | #4,826 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,704 | 13 | #4,471 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,687 | 7 | #6,732 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,292 | 8 | #6,001 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,568 | 8 | #5,886 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,584 | 7 | #6,288 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,005 | 7 | #5,809 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,956 | 9 | #4,605 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,616 | 7 | #5,392 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,426 | 10 | #4,075 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,572 | 7 | #5,023 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,263 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,661 | 9 | #4,264 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,464 | 6 | #5,556 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,548 | 10 | #3,873 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,357 | 8 | #4,447 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,416 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,615 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,092 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,311 | 12 | #2,964 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,097 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,399 | 10 | #3,178 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,693 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,406 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,337 |
| 1968 | — | — | 15 | #2,115 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,011 |
| 1966 | — | — | 12 | #2,342 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,799 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,878 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,210 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,384 |
| 1961 | — | — | 22 | #1,736 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,217 |
| 1959 | — | — | 14 | #2,208 |
| 1958 | — | — | 19 | #1,844 |
| 1957 | — | — | 23 | #1,675 |
| 1956 | — | — | 16 | #2,021 |
| 1955 | — | — | 18 | #1,849 |
| 1954 | — | — | 18 | #1,834 |
| 1953 | — | — | 14 | #2,106 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,622 | 10 | #2,531 |
| 1951 | — | — | 19 | #1,728 |
| 1950 | — | — | 23 | #1,539 |
| 1949 | — | — | 18 | #1,759 |
| 1948 | — | — | 16 | #1,887 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,855 |
| 1946 | — | — | 17 | #1,767 |
| 1945 | — | — | 17 | #1,634 |
| 1944 | — | — | 11 | #2,202 |
| 1943 | — | — | 20 | #1,583 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,546 |
| 1941 | — | — | 18 | #1,638 |
| 1940 | — | — | 22 | #1,437 |
| 1939 | — | — | 16 | #1,721 |
| 1938 | — | — | 16 | #1,747 |
| 1937 | — | — | 31 | #1,184 |
| 1936 | — | — | 22 | #1,422 |
| 1935 | — | — | 18 | #1,662 |
| 1934 | — | — | 28 | #1,269 |
| 1933 | — | — | 19 | #1,595 |
| 1932 | — | — | 22 | #1,514 |
| 1931 | — | — | 21 | #1,545 |
| 1930 | — | — | 31 | #1,284 |
| 1929 | — | — | 12 | #2,328 |
| 1928 | — | — | 31 | #1,296 |
| 1927 | — | — | 21 | #1,697 |
| 1926 | — | — | 24 | #1,517 |
| 1925 | — | — | 23 | #1,592 |
| 1924 | — | — | 29 | #1,382 |
| 1923 | — | — | 24 | #1,555 |
| 1922 | — | — | 20 | #1,772 |
| 1921 | — | — | 22 | #1,652 |
| 1920 | — | — | 25 | #1,508 |
| 1919 | — | — | 24 | #1,486 |
| 1918 | — | — | 19 | #1,769 |
| 1917 | — | — | 16 | #1,907 |
| 1916 | — | — | 26 | #1,340 |
| 1915 | — | — | 14 | #1,982 |
| 1914 | — | — | 18 | #1,445 |
| 1913 | — | — | 13 | #1,505 |
| 1912 | — | — | 13 | #1,362 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,402 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,613 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,471 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,148 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,160 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #988 |
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).