Berton
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Berton has been given to 1,874 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1924, with 53 recorded.
Babies named Berton, 2009
1 in 764,000
Berton over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Berton?
Berton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,315 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 397,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,609 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Berton sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Berton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bertons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Berton was born before 1935 — so the typical Berton is around 90 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 22.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 529
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (418).
Is Berton 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 1924 (53)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.9% average annual change
Spellings of Berton
Berton is not the most common spelling — Vernon is, with 21.4% against Berton's 0.27%.
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 Berton is used
Across 1910–2025, Berton was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 323,981 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 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. Berton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Berton around the world
Where Berton 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.
- France1907–1961#1,669in 1961
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Berton by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Berton
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Berton
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.