Berish — #6248 US boys' name
260 babies named Berish in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 56% of names given to boys today.
37% of everyone ever named Berish was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Berish in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Berish
The Social Security Administration has registered 260 babies named Berish between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Berish currently holds the #6248 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 23 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Berish performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 97 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Berish shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 165 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Berish in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Berish 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 260 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.
Berish at a glance
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Current rank
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Berish popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1972
- Peak year (2023)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 53 years of records
Currently ranks #6248 among boys.
260 total births across 53 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 23 births in a single year.
Berish by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 97 births that decade — 37% of Berish's all-time total
Berish decade highlights
- Peak decade 97 births
- Runner-up 67 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Berish's strongest decade
97 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Berish by state
Where Berish concentrates geographically — total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 165 | 63.5% |
165 of 260 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 63.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 63.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1972–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.