Berkeley

girls:

1.9k births since 1923

#3880 (32nd percentile)

boys:

883 births since 1913

#3705 (19th percentile)

overall:

2.8k births since 1913

#5097 (34th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Berkeley".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
1,926
Peak Births
119
Peak Year
2017
First Recorded
1923
Peak Percentile
12.0%
Current Percentile
8.0%
Peak Rank
#610
Current Rank
#871
Female statistics
Total Births
883
Peak Births
21
Peak Year
2011
First Recorded
1913
Peak Percentile
1.8%
Current Percentile
0.7%
Peak Rank
#407
Current Rank
#905
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Berkeley

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Berkeley. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Berkeley is pronounced as BERK-lee.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Berkeley. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Berkeley, please vote using the thumbs up button.

BAHRK-lee (2 syllables)
2 names 1.3k births
B AA1 R K L IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

BAHRK-lay (2 syllables)
1 name 978 births
B AA1 R K L EY0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B ER1 K L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.