girls:
364 births since 1921
#5352 (6th percentile)
boys:
5.7k births since 1880
#1566 (66th percentile)
overall:
6.1k births since 1880
#3474 (55th percentile)
The name Berry is the #3,474 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,086 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 55.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,566 (65.8% percentile) for all time with 5,722 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,352 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 364 births since 1921.
Berry has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1921 for girls). Birth data for Berry is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 49 years for girls). 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 Berry has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 57.1% of babies named Berry were boys.
For boys, Berry reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 15.8% percentile (ranked #545) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 253 births per million (ranked 12.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Berry ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 1.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Berry reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #559) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Berry ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 28.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Berry".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Berry. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Berry is pronounced as BEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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