Berish
Berish was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,641 among boys’ names; 276 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Berish by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Berish?
#5,641 among boys’ names, 2025
Berish rose from #6,034 in 2015 to #5,641 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 9.4 per million.
23 babies in 2023, the peak
Berish peaked in 2023, when 23 boys were given it, #4,468 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,641 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,226 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,468 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,960 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,958 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,582 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,880 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,386 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,631 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,660 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,034 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,024 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,897 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,497 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,568 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,897 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,707 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,389 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,303 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,483 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,040 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,756 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,099 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,287 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,578 | 3.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,897 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,915 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,722 | 3.1 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,700 | 3.3 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,006 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Berish a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Berish has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Berish: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Berish, and how old are they?
An estimated 272 Americans named Berish and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 235 people named Berish (0 women and girls, 235 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Berish born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 16 | #849 | 10.7× |
Where Berish is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Berish is most over-represented in New York: since 1972 it was given 10.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Berish with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Berish
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Berish and names like it
- Compare Berish and ShulemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBerish peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Berish since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Berish.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Berish alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.