Berkeley — #2381 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Berkeley

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,002 babies named Berkeley between 1923 and 2024, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Berkeley currently holds the #2381 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 119 babies received it in a single year. Berkeley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 890 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Berkeley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 967 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Berkeley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 236 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Berkeley in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Berkeley 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 2,002 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.