Berit

#12,111 in 2025Girls' name

High, exalted, through Birgitta

Berit has been given to 677 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #12,111 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Berit, 2025

1 in 474,000

Berit over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Berit: meaning, origin, and history

High, exalted, through Birgitta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Berit means

Berit belongs to the name family reached through Berit → Berit → Birgitta → Brigit. Its meaning is “high, exalted”.

Origin, language, and formation

Berit is used in Danish, Estonian, Faroese, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Birgitta, Birgitte, Berit and Brigit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 677 girls were recorded with the name Berit between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2006; its best national rank was #4,047 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,615 in 2020 to #12,111 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,575 in 2015 to #12,111 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Berit?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 230,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #12,111; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Berit sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Berit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Berits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Berit was born before 2001 — so the typical Berit is around 24 today.

Median birth year: 2001; About 24 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 51.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 677; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Berit 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: −2,451; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −4,496; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −2,536; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.64×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 28.0%; Peak was 2006 (25)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,047; 1959

Spellings of Berit

Berit is not the most common spelling — Erin is, with 59.3% against Berit's 0.13%.

Erin59.3%316,575
Teri8.2%43,957
Keri6.0%32,061
Jeri4.2%22,637
Bria3.1%16,815
Bertie2.6%13,736
Benita2.6%13,669
Beryl1.9%10,130

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.

Where Berit is used

Across 1910–2025, Berit was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 41,135 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Minnesota1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Berit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Berit around the world

Where Berit 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.

Norway
1880–2023
#489
in 2023

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Berit by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #12,111
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 4,496
Best rank ever: #4,047; 1959
Peak year: 2006; 25 that year
First recorded: 1958
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 677
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Berit

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

Bergen Berlyn Marit Berlin Berlynn Berry Merit Berna Bert Berklee Berma Beryle Spirit Berta Beretta Berdie Sarit Berklie Beryl Berda Bernie Bernell Berneda Amrit

Sibling names for Berit

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

For a sister

Sydni Shyann Sydnie Abagail Alysa Halie Jacquelin Jazmyne

For a brother

Aaden Kale Jarod Keven Zakary Nathen Garret Samual

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