Berklee
Berklee was given to 51 girls in 2025, #3,135 among girls’ names; 1,269 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Berklee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Berklee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Berklee?
#3,135 among girls’ names, 2025
Berklee fell from #2,477 in 2015 to #3,135 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.9 to 31.7 per million.
132 babies in 2018, the peak
Berklee peaked in 2018, when 132 babies were given it (127 girls, #1,657 among girls’ names). The 51 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,135 | 31.7 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,406 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,621 | 41.8 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,764 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,088 | 55.5 |
| 2020 | 94 | #1,992 | 58.1 |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,130 | 52.4 |
| 2018 | 127 | #1,657 | 74.7 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,752 | 35.9 |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,911 | 59.3 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,477 | 40.9 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,596 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,792 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,906 | 33.5 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,735 | 23.3 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,897 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,381 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,908 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,090 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,929 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,047 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,443 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,463 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,359 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,248 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,381 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,894 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,650 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,517 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Berklee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,269 Americans recorded as Berklee, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 51 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Berklee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Berklee, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,269 Americans ever recorded as Berklee. The median Berklee alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 839 people named Berklee (788 women and girls, 51 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 876 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 285 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 970 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Berklee born?
The states with the most babies named Berklee are Texas, Utah and Georgia, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 109 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Utah | 71 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Georgia | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 16 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Nebraska | 15 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| South Dakota | 13 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Tennessee | 13 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kansas | 10 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 9 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Berklee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Berklee?
Berklee is a less common spelling of Berkley: SSA has recorded 1,269 Berklee and 7,712 Berkley since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 12,161 babies since 1880, Berklee is the third most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 477 babies (11%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Berklee
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 Berklee and names like it
- Compare Berklee and BerkleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBerklee peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Berklee since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Berklee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Berklee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.