Beryl — #11075 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Beryl

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,122 babies named Beryl between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Beryl currently holds the #11075 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 311 babies received it in a single year. Beryl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,338 additional births since 1890.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Beryl performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 2,256 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Beryl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 878 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Beryl in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Beryl 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 10,122 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.