Berl
Berl was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,642 among boys’ names; 1,094 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Berl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Berl?
#5,642 among boys’ names, 2025
Berl fell from #4,561 in 2015 to #5,642 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 9.4 per million.
26 babies in 1922, the peak
Berl peaked in 1922, when 26 boys were given it, #1,475 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,642 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,088 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,686 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,187 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,794 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,265 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,345 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,127 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,552 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,490 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,561 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,890 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,759 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,624 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,453 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,369 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,758 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,008 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,065 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,170 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,552 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,230 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,916 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,828 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,551 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,804 | 3.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,973 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,002 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,424 | 3.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,188 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #3,993 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,877 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,724 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,432 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,677 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,268 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,655 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,508 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,582 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,759 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,163 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,123 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,760 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,219 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,234 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,453 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,376 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,040 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,780 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 13 | #1,997 | 9.5 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,420 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,156 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,217 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,808 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,887 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 13 | #1,987 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,095 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,470 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,663 | 17.3 |
| 1934 | 15 | #1,867 | 14.5 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,503 | 21.2 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,654 | 18.2 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,939 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,193 | 11.8 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,416 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,831 | 16.3 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,650 | 19.5 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,570 | 20.7 |
| 1925 | 17 | #1,936 | 15.2 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,844 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,462 | 23.7 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,475 | 23.9 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,835 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,826 | 17.9 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,702 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,543 | 22.7 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,400 | 27.0 |
| 1916 | 15 | #1,959 | 16.9 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,794 | 18.9 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,787 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,296 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,582 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Berl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Berl has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 82 years of records.
Girls and boys named Berl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Berl, and how old are they?
An estimated 504 Americans named Berl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 491 people named Berl (21 women and girls, 470 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 470 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 Berl born?
The states with the most babies named Berl are New York, Illinois and Indiana, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 201 | #850 | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Berl is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Berl is most over-represented in New York: since 1912 it was given 2.2 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 Berl with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,472 babies since 1880, Berl is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 29 babies (55%), again the 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 Berl
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 Berl and names like it
- Compare Berl and BerelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBerl peaked in 1922.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Berl since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Berl.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Berl alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.