Berry

Where Berry comes from

Variant of Bury and (in dialects with Mary-marry-merry merger) Barry. The given name is also a pet form of names beginning with Ber-.
— Wiktionary's entry for Berry
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #305 among boys with 30 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #470.
  3. 1929
    Berry Gordy born
    American record producer, founder of Motown Records
  4. 1962
    Berry van Aerle born
    Dutch footballer
  5. 2018
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A place name:
  • A town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.
  • A village in the City of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia, named after Alexander Berry.
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Berry Gordy · American record producer, founder of Motown Records, born 1929
  • Berry van Aerle · Dutch footballer, born 1962
  • Berry Oakley · American bassist, 1948–1972
  • Berry Kroeger · American actor, 1912–1991
  • Berry Bickle · Zimbabwean artist, born 1959

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.