Berkley — #879 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Berkley

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,208 babies named Berkley between 1952 and 2024, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Berkley currently holds the #879 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 354 babies received it in a single year. Berkley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,169 additional births since 1891.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Berkley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,330 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Berkley shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 736 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Indiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Berkley in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Berkley 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 5,208 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.