Berkeley
Berkeley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 76 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 760.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2017119 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1923
- 2,892people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,002 girls have been named Berkeley in the United States since 1923, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 119 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 48%.
Berkeley is used for both sexes: 31% of its bearers are boys (890), most of them born around 2011.
By decade
In 2017, its biggest year
Berkeley was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2017 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Berkeley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Annabethpeak 2014
- Calipeak 2014
- Annaliepeak 2024
- Ellisonpeak 2021
- Skylynnpeak 2018
- Teaganpeak 2016
- Emmanuellapeak 2017
- Avnipeak 2020
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.