Berlynn
Berlynn was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,442 among girls’ names; 523 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Berlynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Berlynn?
#8,442 among girls’ names, 2025
Berlynn fell from #5,315 in 2015 to #8,442 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 7.5 per million.
38 babies in 2014, the peak
Berlynn peaked in 2014, when 38 girls were given it, #3,933 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,442 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,277 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,709 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,259 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,554 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,362 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,750 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,288 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,576 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,157 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,315 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,933 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,045 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,984 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,388 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,506 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,108 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,793 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,972 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,623 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,290 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,590 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,464 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,773 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,687 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,253 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,896 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,423 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,603 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,287 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Berlynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Berlynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Berlynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Berlynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 519 Americans named Berlynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 437 people named Berlynn (427 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 438 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
How common is the spelling Berlynn?
Berlynn is a less common spelling of Berlin: SSA has recorded 523 Berlynn and 3,431 Berlin since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,851 babies since 1880, Berlynn is the fourth most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 138 babies (8.7%), again the fourth 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 Berlynn
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 Berlynn and names like it
- Compare Berlynn and BerlinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBerlynn peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Berlynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Berlynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Berlynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.