Berkeley
#2,485 for girls in 2025, 71 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 69.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 119 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,073since 1923
Berkeley over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,485 | 71 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #2,389 | 76 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #2,269 | 81 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #2,319 | 80 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #2,119 | 89 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #1,908 | 100 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #1,971 | 98 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #1,774 | 115 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | #1,761 | 119 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #1,775 | 117 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #1,883 | 108 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #2,213 | 85 | #5,997 | 14 |
| 2013 | #2,211 | 84 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #2,401 | 77 | #4,686 | 20 |
| 2011 | #2,156 | 88 | #4,509 | 21 |
| 2010 | #2,451 | 76 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #3,047 | 56 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #3,054 | 56 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #3,428 | 48 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #3,617 | 43 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #3,366 | 45 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #4,209 | 29 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | — | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,818 | 9 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,495 | 10 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,498 | 10 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,534 | 9 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,574 | 8 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #2,491 | 9 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,609 | 8 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,932 | 14 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,092 | 7 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,781 | 9 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,522 | 11 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #2,566 | 11 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,132 | 15 | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | #3,822 | 6 |
| 1922 | — | #2,486 | 12 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,517 | 7 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,459 | 12 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,260 | 13 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,457 | 8 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Berkeley! It came in at #4,967, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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- 96 spots since 2024 (#2,389 → #2,485)
- 577 spots since 2020 (#1,908 → #2,485)
- 602 spots since 2015 (#1,883 → #2,485)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2017 at #1,761 (119 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,508 girls born in 2017 were named Berkeley (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,638 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.6% of all girls named Berkeley (967) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1983, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,967 (1923) | #4,967 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 18 | #7,173 (1975) | #8,340 |
| 1980s | 69 | #6,156 (1986) | #8,508 |
| 1990s | 143 | #5,010 (1997) | #6,625 |
| 2000s | 374 | #3,047 (2009) | #4,090 |
| 2010s | 967 | #1,761 (2017) | #2,060 |
| 2020s | 497 | #1,908 (2020) | #2,248 |
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.
Berkeley in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 32,806 of them was named Berkeley, which outranked 84.9% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,000Tamiyah57
- #3,000Vaishnavi57
- #3,000Yamile57
- #3,047Berkeley56
- #3,047Ainslee56
- #3,047Aislin56
- #3,047Baya56
- #3,088Akasha55
- #3,088Alaynah55
- #3,088Aliviah55
Tied with 40 names at #3,047; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 198,357 of them was named Berkeley, which outranked 47.1% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,236Zymeir11
- #7,236Zymire11
- #7,236Zyrell11
- #7,692Berkeley10
- #7,692Aarik10
- #7,692Ab10
- #7,692Abdimalik10
- #8,310Aadam9
- #8,310Abdou9
- #8,310Abdoulie9
Tied with 617 names at #7,692; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.