Bergen — #5480 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Bergen

The Social Security Administration has registered 522 babies named Bergen between 1979 and 2024, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bergen currently holds the #5480 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Bergen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 395 additional births since 1928.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bergen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 174 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Bergen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Nebraska, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and South Dakota. In total, SSA state-level files list Bergen in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bergen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 522 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.