Berney
Berney was last recorded in 1962, when 10 babies were given it; 52 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Berney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Berney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #2,683, in 1962; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1962, the peak
Berney peaked in 1962, when 10 boys were given it, #2,683 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 10 | #2,683 | 4.8 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,309 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,275 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 5 | #3,992 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,536 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,204 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,566 | 4.5 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,440 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Berney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Berney has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Berney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Berney, and how old are they?
An estimated 29 Americans named Berney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 163 people named Berney (25 women and girls, 138 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 34 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Berney?
Berney is a less common spelling of Bernie: SSA has recorded 52 Berney and 10,760 Bernie since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 10,879 babies since 1880, Berney is the third most given (<1% of them).
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.
More about Berney and names like it
- Compare Berney and BernieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBerney peaked in 1962.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Berney.
- Names starting with BMost given first.