girls:
1.1k births since 1992
#4571 (20th percentile)
boys:
27 births since 2015
#4559 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1992
#6568 (15th percentile)
The name Berklee is the #6,568 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,172 recorded births since 1992. This represents the 15.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,571 (20.0% percentile) for all time with 1,145 births since 1992. For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 2015.
Berklee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1992 (1992 for girls and 2015 for boys). Birth data for Berklee is available in 27 out of the 32 years between 1992 and 2023 (27 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Berklee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Berklee reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 12.7% percentile (ranked #839) with 68 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 68 births per million (ranked 12.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Berklee ranks #885 for girls (6.6% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 56.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Berklee reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #920) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Berklee".
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