Meaning not yet researched.
Berry: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #305 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #305 in 1880; #12,290 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Berry in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,290 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #305.
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Berry: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #305 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 108 (1963).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Berry, making it the 12,290th most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,446 places from #7,844 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 10 boys named Berry in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #305, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 108, in 1963. For comparison, it was #7,126 in 2015 and #837 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Berry in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 30 babies. In all, 6,107 US babies have been given the name, 6.1% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 853 babies named Berry.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 78 US boys were named Berry; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Berea, Beri and Berri are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Berea (74), Beri (22), Berri (6), Berrie (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 Berry in the open dataset we use.
Berry is listed as a nickname for Greenberry.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #12,290 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,745 | 10 | #7,844 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,719 | 8 | #9,024 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,686 | 11 | #7,326 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #8,940 |
| 2020 | — | — | 11 | #7,099 |
| 2019 | — | — | 6 | #10,965 |
| 2018 | — | — | 9 | #8,247 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,416 | — | — |
| 2016 | — | — | 10 | #7,667 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,014 | 11 | #7,126 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #12,376 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,307 | 9 | #8,233 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,176 | 5 | #12,515 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #7,648 |
| 2009 | — | — | 11 | #7,277 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #11,226 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,783 | 11 | #7,153 |
| 2006 | — | — | 10 | #7,489 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,378 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,032 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,308 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,108 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #8,430 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #5,958 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,222 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,221 |
| 1997 | — | — | 17 | #3,898 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #4,910 |
| 1995 | — | — | 23 | #3,029 |
| 1994 | — | — | 22 | #3,117 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,154 |
| 1992 | — | — | 26 | #2,679 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,118 |
| 1990 | — | — | 23 | #2,786 |
| 1989 | — | — | 34 | #2,070 |
| 1988 | — | — | 36 | #1,854 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,847 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,083 | 28 | #2,061 |
| 1985 | — | — | 36 | #1,700 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,254 | 37 | #1,609 |
| 1983 | — | — | 41 | #1,491 |
| 1982 | — | — | 42 | #1,489 |
| 1981 | — | — | 37 | #1,606 |
| 1980 | — | — | 44 | #1,433 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,127 | 41 | #1,465 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,005 | 56 | #1,187 |
| 1977 | — | — | 42 | #1,410 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,243 | 47 | #1,286 |
| 1975 | — | — | 50 | #1,194 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,895 | 47 | #1,216 |
| 1973 | — | — | 49 | #1,177 |
| 1972 | — | — | 48 | #1,177 |
| 1971 | — | — | 71 | #966 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,442 | 74 | #929 |
| 1969 | — | — | 69 | #916 |
| 1968 | — | — | 61 | #931 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,088 | 66 | #885 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,646 | 80 | #812 |
| 1965 | — | — | 81 | #820 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,040 | 84 | #825 |
| 1963 | — | — | 108 | #747 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,914 | 82 | #839 |
| 1961 | — | — | 86 | #826 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,452 | 90 | #804 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,662 | 78 | #864 |
| 1958 | — | — | 83 | #824 |
| 1957 | — | — | 86 | #813 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,493 | 79 | #840 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,268 | 76 | #844 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,307 | 85 | #773 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,714 | 82 | #788 |
| 1952 | — | — | 78 | #794 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,049 | 82 | #775 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,444 | 66 | #837 |
| 1949 | — | — | 67 | #837 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,305 | 61 | #872 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,373 | 73 | #805 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,475 | 69 | #801 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,612 | 49 | #916 |
| 1944 | — | — | 61 | #801 |
| 1943 | — | — | 67 | #803 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,164 | 61 | #834 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,276 | 49 | #906 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,239 | 58 | #819 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,465 | 55 | #819 |
| 1938 | — | — | 51 | #871 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,756 | 54 | #831 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,884 | 39 | #1,012 |
| 1935 | — | — | 51 | #883 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,300 | 47 | #918 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,554 | 55 | #834 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,605 | 56 | #854 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,524 | 60 | #808 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,705 | 61 | #834 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,420 | 63 | #819 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,792 | 67 | #796 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,078 | 55 | #928 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,365 | 58 | #877 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,635 | 56 | #902 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,692 | 57 | #926 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,397 | 67 | #821 |
| 1922 | — | — | 56 | #930 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,201 | 78 | #753 |
| 1920 | — | — | 55 | #929 |
| 1919 | — | — | 59 | #861 |
| 1918 | — | — | 64 | #818 |
| 1917 | — | — | 47 | #935 |
| 1916 | — | — | 71 | #709 |
| 1915 | — | — | 60 | #776 |
| 1914 | — | — | 41 | #837 |
| 1913 | — | — | 41 | #721 |
| 1912 | — | — | 42 | #649 |
| 1911 | — | — | 23 | #648 |
| 1910 | — | — | 21 | #638 |
| 1909 | — | — | 33 | #436 |
| 1908 | — | — | 28 | #466 |
| 1907 | — | — | 25 | #464 |
| 1906 | — | — | 9 | #860 |
| 1905 | — | — | 21 | #492 |
| 1904 | — | — | 16 | #569 |
| 1903 | — | — | 26 | #382 |
| 1902 | — | — | 15 | #559 |
| 1901 | — | — | 20 | #423 |
| 1900 | — | — | 22 | #491 |
| 1899 | — | — | 17 | #459 |
| 1898 | — | — | 22 | #420 |
| 1897 | — | — | 17 | #478 |
| 1896 | — | — | 20 | #440 |
| 1895 | — | — | 18 | #480 |
| 1894 | — | — | 12 | #596 |
| 1893 | — | — | 22 | #384 |
| 1892 | — | — | 24 | #384 |
| 1891 | — | — | 14 | #477 |
| 1890 | — | — | 17 | #438 |
| 1889 | — | — | 23 | #373 |
| 1888 | — | — | 21 | #404 |
| 1887 | — | — | 19 | #380 |
| 1886 | — | — | 15 | #473 |
| 1885 | — | — | 24 | #356 |
| 1884 | — | — | 29 | #327 |
| 1883 | — | — | 24 | #338 |
| 1882 | — | — | 27 | #333 |
| 1881 | — | — | 22 | #348 |
| 1880 | — | — | 30 | #305 |
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).