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Berkley

#888 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Berkley has been given to 7,712 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #888 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 354 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% girls, 29% boys all-time.

Babies named Berkley, 2025

1 in 11,000

Berkley over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Berkley over time

In 2025, Berkley went to 90% girls and 10% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Berkley: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Berkley means

Berkley is a given name.

The naming story behind Berkley

Wikidata records Berkley as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q52983553, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,510 girls were recorded with the name Berkley between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 354 in 2021; its best national rank was #798 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #822 in 2020 to #888 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,079 in 2015 to #888 in 2025.

In the United States, 2,202 boys were recorded with the name Berkley between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2013; its best national rank was #987 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,550 in 2020 to #3,452 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,607 in 2015 to #3,452 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 Berkley?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,000
301 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,340
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#888
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,635 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Berkley 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,635 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Berkley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Berkleys were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,510
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (2,330).

Is Berkley 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
−8
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−66
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+191
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.24×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.0%
Peak was 2021 (354)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#798
2021

Spellings of Berkley

Berkley is not the most common spelling — Briley is, with 27.5% against Berkley's 22.9%.

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 Berkley is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Berkley was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 529 girls, against 1 in 4,894 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

1189 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 529
  2. 2Nebraska1 in 633
  3. 3Iowa1 in 980
  4. 4Utah1 in 1,515
  5. 5Kansas1 in 1,538
  6. 6North Dakota1 in 1,887
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 1,887
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 1,923

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.

Geographically, Berkley is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 98% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Where Berkley is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Berkley was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 107,037 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 14,286
  2. 2Arkansas1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Missouri1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Berkley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Berkley around the world

Where Berkley 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.

  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Berkley

People whose public names include Berkley, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Berkley by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#888
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 66
Best rank ever
#798
2021
Peak year
2021
354 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,510
Count in 2025
301

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,452
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 902
Best rank ever
#987
1891
Peak year
2013
50 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,202
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Berkley

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

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Names with a curve like Berkley

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Berkley, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Berkley

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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