Meaning not yet researched.
Beryl: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #374 in 1920.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #374 in 1920; #11,101 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Beryl in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,101 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1920, at #374.
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Beryl: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #374 in 1920 · most girls in one year: 311 (1920).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Beryl, making it the 11,101st most common girls’ name of the year, up 182 places from #11,283 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 8 girls named Beryl in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #374, reached in 1920. That year also had the most girls given the name: 311. For comparison, it was #11,030 in 2015 and #710 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Beryl in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #585, reached in 1912. The most boys given the name in a single year was 78, in 1919. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,365 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Beryl in 138 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 11 babies. In all, 12,468 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,876 babies named Beryl.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 83 US girls were named Beryl; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Beryle, Berel and Beril 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Beryle (644), Berel (195), Beril (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 Beryl in the open dataset we use.
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 | 8 | #11,101 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,283 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,450 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,527 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,385 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,536 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,699 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,911 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,017 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,030 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,123 | — | — |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,379 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,197 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,553 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,952 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,152 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,055 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,959 | — | — |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,605 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,634 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,546 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,277 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,684 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,106 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,724 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,806 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,108 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,485 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,506 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,870 | 5 | #8,024 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,490 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,185 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,429 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,758 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,128 | 5 | #6,343 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,236 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,988 | 6 | #5,558 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,483 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,111 | 7 | #4,897 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,437 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,944 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,646 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,558 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,483 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,903 | 5 | #5,176 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,561 | 8 | #3,695 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,085 | 5 | #4,794 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,793 | 12 | #2,562 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,183 | 10 | #2,749 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,277 | 12 | #2,365 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,192 | 9 | #2,802 |
| 1965 | 34 | #1,998 | 9 | #2,800 |
| 1964 | 63 | #1,420 | 10 | #2,680 |
| 1963 | 57 | #1,478 | 12 | #2,429 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,543 | 16 | #2,040 |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,467 | 15 | #2,155 |
| 1960 | 63 | #1,386 | 14 | #2,218 |
| 1959 | 82 | #1,176 | 15 | #2,122 |
| 1958 | 76 | #1,221 | 15 | #2,104 |
| 1957 | 125 | #910 | 13 | #2,286 |
| 1956 | 106 | #989 | 13 | #2,277 |
| 1955 | 111 | #932 | 13 | #2,225 |
| 1954 | 108 | #927 | 7 | #3,196 |
| 1953 | 106 | #915 | 23 | #1,595 |
| 1952 | 119 | #842 | 17 | #1,864 |
| 1951 | 150 | #712 | 22 | #1,602 |
| 1950 | 145 | #710 | 28 | #1,365 |
| 1949 | 145 | #703 | 30 | #1,325 |
| 1948 | 169 | #639 | 35 | #1,217 |
| 1947 | 155 | #674 | 25 | #1,484 |
| 1946 | 106 | #802 | 28 | #1,328 |
| 1945 | 100 | #750 | 31 | #1,185 |
| 1944 | 112 | #710 | 47 | #935 |
| 1943 | 116 | #714 | 32 | #1,219 |
| 1942 | 116 | #690 | 30 | #1,273 |
| 1941 | 104 | #689 | 45 | #951 |
| 1940 | 130 | #613 | 32 | #1,184 |
| 1939 | 122 | #610 | 33 | #1,122 |
| 1938 | 122 | #614 | 33 | #1,129 |
| 1937 | 128 | #596 | 41 | #988 |
| 1936 | 138 | #554 | 37 | #1,053 |
| 1935 | 117 | #603 | 42 | #980 |
| 1934 | 146 | #536 | 58 | #823 |
| 1933 | 161 | #503 | 67 | #747 |
| 1932 | 198 | #464 | 63 | #802 |
| 1931 | 229 | #429 | 67 | #759 |
| 1930 | 197 | #477 | 54 | #909 |
| 1929 | 180 | #502 | 57 | #879 |
| 1928 | 207 | #475 | 51 | #952 |
| 1927 | 223 | #466 | 69 | #800 |
| 1926 | 228 | #446 | 48 | #994 |
| 1925 | 200 | #496 | 56 | #903 |
| 1924 | 219 | #470 | 77 | #759 |
| 1923 | 217 | #466 | 69 | #803 |
| 1922 | 233 | #445 | 61 | #883 |
| 1921 | 238 | #447 | 64 | #868 |
| 1920 | 311 | #374 | 68 | #812 |
| 1919 | 234 | #427 | 78 | #717 |
| 1918 | 268 | #399 | 69 | #783 |
| 1917 | 217 | #435 | 60 | #822 |
| 1916 | 213 | #432 | 58 | #811 |
| 1915 | 211 | #410 | 75 | #672 |
| 1914 | 180 | #393 | 41 | #838 |
| 1913 | 149 | #399 | 25 | #1,001 |
| 1912 | 149 | #376 | 48 | #585 |
| 1911 | 94 | #417 | 14 | #899 |
| 1910 | 91 | #413 | 8 | #1,208 |
| 1909 | 70 | #443 | 7 | #1,167 |
| 1908 | 88 | #385 | 9 | #956 |
| 1907 | 74 | #413 | 7 | #1,109 |
| 1906 | 70 | #408 | 12 | #713 |
| 1905 | 78 | #384 | 9 | #843 |
| 1904 | 73 | #385 | 7 | #976 |
| 1903 | 57 | #420 | — | — |
| 1902 | 59 | #401 | 8 | #871 |
| 1901 | 59 | #383 | — | — |
| 1900 | 59 | #431 | — | — |
| 1899 | 39 | #470 | — | — |
| 1898 | 46 | #448 | 5 | #1,141 |
| 1897 | 37 | #470 | — | — |
| 1896 | 45 | #428 | — | — |
| 1895 | 40 | #457 | — | — |
| 1894 | 29 | #535 | 5 | #1,095 |
| 1893 | 33 | #465 | 6 | #923 |
| 1892 | 37 | #443 | 6 | #970 |
| 1891 | 36 | #414 | — | — |
| 1890 | 32 | #462 | 5 | #1,018 |
| 1889 | 37 | #399 | — | — |
| 1888 | 19 | #575 | — | — |
| 1887 | 27 | #425 | — | — |
| 1886 | 16 | #556 | — | — |
| 1885 | 12 | #629 | — | — |
| 1884 | 14 | #560 | — | — |
| 1883 | 8 | #702 | — | — |
| 1882 | 11 | #568 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #630 | — | — |
| 1880 | 11 | #519 | — | — |
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).