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Berke

Boys' name

From Mongolian бэрх; literal meaning unconfirmed

Berke has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 9 recorded.

Babies named Berke, 2010

1 in 411,000

Berke over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Berke: meaning, origin, and history

From Mongolian бэрх; literal meaning unconfirmed

Mongolian

What Berke means

Berke is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Berke is used in Turkish. Its origins include Mongolian.

Berke comes through Mongolian бэрх.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Berk and berk.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 34 boys were recorded with the name Berke between 2002 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2010; its best national rank was #8,216 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 Berke?

Berke had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 411,000
9 of 3,695,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
284,648 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Berke 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 2010 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 284,648 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Berke. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Berkes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Berke was born before 2005 — so the typical Berke is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
73.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
34
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 73.5% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Berke 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (9)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,216
2010

Spellings of Berke

Berke is not the most common spelling — Blake is, with 60.2% against Berke'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.

Berke around the world

Where Berke 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
    1999–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • France
    2004–2011
    #4,894
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Berke 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
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Best rank ever
#8,216
2010
Peak year
2010
9 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
34
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Berke

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

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Sibling names for Berke

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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