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Berk

Boys' name

Solid, firm, strong

Berk has been given to 250 babies in the U.S. since 1993. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Berk, 2023

1 in 663,000

Berk over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Berk: meaning, origin, and history

Solid, firm, strong

Proto-Turkic

What Berk means

Berk means “solid, firm, strong”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Berk is used in Turkish.

Origin, language, and formation

Berk is used in Turkish. Its origins include Proto-Turkic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 250 boys were recorded with the name Berk between 1993 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2010; its best national rank was #5,068 in 2010.

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 Berk?

Berk had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Berk 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Berk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Berks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Berk was born before 2007 — so the typical Berk is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
250
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (100).

Is Berk 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (18)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,068
2010

Spellings of Berk

Berk is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 63.9% against Berk's 0.01%.

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.

Berk around the world

Where Berk 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
    1999–2023
    #3,524
    in 2023

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

Berk by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,068
2010
Peak year
2010
18 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
250
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Berk

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

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Sibling names for Berk

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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