Bergen

#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 57.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
2025 · 29 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
551
since 1979

Bergen over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201979peak #3,366, 2003girlsat peakboys
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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,66129#8,9108
2024#5,44323
2023#10,3129
2022#11,2318#8,3009
2021#10,2929#6,69812
2020#9,54610#5,98014
2019#8,59712#9,7567
2018#15,6825#6,70312
2017#9,94310#9,6967
2016#8,87512#8,8168
2015#6,03621#7,06611
2014#8,96612#6,30713
2013#7,74815#9,6557
2012#7,14417#7,05011
2011#9,15012#6,25613
2010#7,88015#7,08711
2009#5,53725#4,58221
2008#7,74216#4,39522
2007#6,55220#4,49321
2006#8,71513#4,00124
2005#6,52818#3,94123
2004#7,82814#4,42119
2003#7,58014#3,36627
2002#7,44414#4,18819
2001#4,83424#3,51224
2000#6,48716#3,53623
1999#5,03921#4,34116
1998#5,79917#9,6315
1997#7,74211#8,1106
1996#9,5818
1995#9,5538
1994#7,60411#8,8005
1993#11,7806
1992#8,06510
1991#7,43011
1990#10,1937
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1987#7,9878
1986#9,5456
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1983#8,0477
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First appearance
1979

The first year at least five girls were named Bergen! It came in at #9,010, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1981–1982, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Bergen
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 782 spots since 2024 (#5,443#4,661)
  • 4,885 spots since 2020 (#9,546#4,661)
  • 1,375 spots since 2015 (#6,036#4,661)
Rise & fade · girls
46 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1979
  • Peaked 2025 at #4,661 (29 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 55,423
  • Highest: 1 in 55,423 girls born in 2025 were named Bergen (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 31.6% of all girls named Bergen (174) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2023
  • Mostly boys until 2022, mostly girls since
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s6#9,010 (1979)#9,010
1980s42#7,111 (1988)#8,701
1990s110#5,039 (1999)#8,279
2000s174#4,834 (2001)#6,925
2010s131#6,036 (2015)#9,002
2020s88#4,661 (2025)#8,581

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.

Bergen in 1979

girls
#9,010
6 births · 1 in 267,545 girls

Top girls' names in 1979

  1. #1Jennifer56,712
  2. #2Melissa34,050
  3. #3Amanda31,924
  4. #4Jessica27,780
  5. #5Amy21,609
  6. #6Sarah21,015
  7. #7Heather20,834
  8. #8Angela20,256
  9. #9Nicole19,510
  10. #10Michelle19,266
  11. #9,010Bergen6
More about 1979

girls

1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 267,545 of them was named Bergen, which outranked 24.7% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Bergen
  1. #8,061Yuko7
  2. #8,061Zenovia7
  3. #8,061Zonia7
  4. #9,010Bergen6
  5. #9,010Aarica6
  6. #9,010Aba6
  7. #9,010Abel6
  8. #10,210Abeer5
  9. #10,210Abria5
  10. #10,210Adah5

Tied with 1,199 names at #9,010; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1978
Risers
  1. 1,593Breanne#2,125#532
  2. 1,527Loni#2,516#989
  3. 1,287Renata#2,012#725
  4. 985Ashanti#1,862#877
  5. 896Nicolette#1,581#685
Fallers
  1. 392Christel#762#1,154
  2. 312Kenisha#557#869
  3. 297Ariane#887#1,184
  4. 285Imelda#947#1,232
  5. 252Farrah#539#791

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

See the top 100 for 1979