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Bereket

#7,255 in 2025Boys' name

Blessing, abundance, profusion

Bereket has been given to 203 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #7,255 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Bereket, 2025

1 in 301,000

Bereket over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bereket: meaning, origin, and history

Blessing, abundance, profusion

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bereket means

Bereket means “blessing, abundance, profusion”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 203 boys were recorded with the name Bereket between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2019; its best national rank was #5,584 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,258 in 2020 to #7,255 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Bereket?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,255
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bereket sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bereket. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Berekets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bereket was born before 2016 — so the typical Bereket is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
203
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Bereket rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,867
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,003
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
68.8%
Peak was 2019 (16)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,584
2019

Spellings of Bereket

Bereket is not the most common spelling — Becket is, with 74.4% against Bereket's 25.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Bereket around the world

Where Bereket ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2020
    #2,960
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Bereket by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,255
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,003
Best rank ever
#5,584
2019
Peak year
2019
16 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
203
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Bereket

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bereket

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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