Berlin
#3,780 for girls in 2025, 39 births · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to girls 52.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 97 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,796since 1918
Berlin 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 | #3,780 | 39 | #5,045 | 19 |
| 2024 | #2,857 | 58 | #4,200 | 25 |
| 2023 | #3,386 | 47 | #4,343 | 24 |
| 2022 | #2,956 | 56 | #3,464 | 33 |
| 2021 | #2,958 | 56 | #4,011 | 26 |
| 2020 | #2,712 | 61 | #3,570 | 30 |
| 2019 | #3,337 | 47 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #2,711 | 63 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #2,744 | 62 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #2,446 | 75 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #2,408 | 76 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #2,194 | 86 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #2,408 | 75 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #2,516 | 72 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #2,017 | 97 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #2,167 | 90 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #2,316 | 84 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #2,511 | 75 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #2,647 | 69 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,701 | 66 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #3,212 | 48 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #2,851 | 56 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | — | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | — | #3,966 | 10 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,386 | 11 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,621 | 13 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,784 | 9 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,300 | 13 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,997 | 17 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,315 | 13 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,530 | 11 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,506 | 11 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,631 | 10 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,798 | 9 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,902 | 17 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,743 | 9 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,856 | 17 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,246 | 12 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,019 | 14 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,123 | 13 | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | #1,817 | 17 |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | #1,988 | 15 |
| 1946 | — | #2,030 | 13 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,926 | 13 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,988 | 13 | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | #1,461 | 23 |
| 1942 | — | #1,537 | 21 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,446 | 22 | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | #1,368 | 24 |
| 1939 | — | #1,272 | 27 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,439 | 22 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,992 | 13 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,384 | 23 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,390 | 24 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,498 | 21 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,540 | 20 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,584 | 20 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,253 | 30 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,428 | 26 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,443 | 25 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,382 | 28 | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | #1,436 | 27 |
| 1926 | — | #1,161 | 38 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,184 | 36 | |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | #1,246 | 34 |
| 1923 | #3,641 | 8 | #1,256 | 33 |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | #1,158 | 38 |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | #1,086 | 42 |
| 1920 | #3,097 | 10 | #1,089 | 42 |
| 1919 | — | #1,139 | 37 | |
| 1918 | #3,024 | 10 | #1,172 | 35 |
| 1917 | — | #1,693 | 19 | |
| 1916 | — | #984 | 42 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,217 | 29 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,101 | 27 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,365 | 15 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,174 | 16 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,421 | 6 | |
| 1909 | — | #1,277 | 6 | |
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | #1,051 | 5 | |
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Berlin! It came in at #3,024, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1919, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
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- 923 spots since 2024 (#2,857 → #3,780)
- 1,068 spots since 2020 (#2,712 → #3,780)
- 1,372 spots since 2015 (#2,408 → #3,780)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2011 at #2,017 (97 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,135 girls born in 2011 were named Berlin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 41,212 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.4% of all girls named Berlin (743) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2001, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #3,024 (1918) | #3,024 |
| 1920s | 40 | #3,097 (1920) | #4,272 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 20 | #4,349 (1940) | #4,895 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 48 | #5,836 (1989) | #7,535 |
| 1990s | 169 | #4,497 (1991) | #5,698 |
| 2000s | 449 | #2,316 (2009) | #5,282 |
| 2010s | 743 | #2,017 (2011) | #2,495 |
| 2020s | 317 | #2,712 (2020) | #3,108 |
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.
Berlin in 1935
Top boys' names in 1935
More about 1935
boys
1,041,351 boys got a published name in 1935; 1 in 43,390 of them was named Berlin, which outranked 66.5% of the 4,146 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,354Okey25
- #1,354Ransom25
- #1,354Valentino25
- #1,390Berlin24
- #1,390Aubry24
- #1,390Authur24
- #1,390Barrett24
- #1,422Alec23
- #1,422Archibald23
- #1,422Bedford23
Tied with 31 names at #1,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.