girls:
10.1k births since 1880
#1584 (72nd percentile)
boys:
2.3k births since 1890
#2615 (43rd percentile)
overall:
12.5k births since 1880
#2359 (70th percentile)
The name Beryl is the #2,359 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,452 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 69.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,584 (72.3% percentile) for all time with 10,114 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,615 (43.0% percentile) for all time with 2,338 births since 1890.
Beryl has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1890 for boys). Birth data for Beryl is available in 136 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (136 years for girls and 79 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 Beryl has been given predominantly to girls, with 81.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Beryl were girls.
For girls, Beryl reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 42.2% percentile (ranked #352) with 250 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 254 births per million (ranked 29.4% percentile). Despite a low point in 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Beryl ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Beryl reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 13.9% percentile (ranked #433) with 85 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 106 births per million (ranked 11.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Beryl".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Beryl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.2% confident that Beryl is pronounced as BEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEH-rihl, at 17.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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