Berma — girls' name
266 babies named Berma in U.S. Social Security records since 1904, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Berma was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Berma in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Berma
The Social Security Administration has registered 266 babies named Berma between 1904 and 1954, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Berma currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1954. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Berma performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 74 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Berma shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Berma in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Berma 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 266 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.
Berma at a glance
Last recorded 1954Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Berma popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1954–1904
- Peak year (1920)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 51 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1954.
266 total births across 51 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 16 births in a single year.
Berma by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 74 births that decade — 28% of Berma's all-time total
Berma decade highlights
- Peak decade 74 births
- Runner-up 57 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Berma's strongest decade
74 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Berma by state
Where Berma concentrates geographically — total births since 1904
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 6 | 2.3% |
6 of 266 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 2.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 2.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1904–1954 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.