# Berkley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/berkley/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,712 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,202 / 5,510 (71% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 217 | 1,127 |
| 2012 | 223 | 1,115 |
| 2013 | 234 | 1,063 |
| 2014 | 238 | 1,074 |
| 2015 | 243 | 1,079 |
| 2016 | 229 | 1,111 |
| 2017 | 211 | 1,167 |
| 2018 | 281 | 946 |
| 2019 | 261 | 990 |
| 2020 | 331 | 822 |
| 2021 | 354 | 798 |
| 2022 | 340 | 822 |
| 2023 | 327 | 838 |
| 2024 | 307 | 880 |
| 2025 | 301 | 888 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 34 | 3,243 |
| 2012 | 45 | 2,681 |
| 2013 | 50 | 2,463 |
| 2014 | 36 | 3,096 |
| 2015 | 47 | 2,608 |
| 2016 | 46 | 2,665 |
| 2017 | 44 | 2,761 |
| 2018 | 38 | 3,059 |
| 2019 | 44 | 2,814 |
| 2020 | 50 | 2,551 |
| 2021 | 35 | 3,308 |
| 2022 | 31 | 3,628 |
| 2023 | 36 | 3,303 |
| 2024 | 35 | 3,339 |
| 2025 | 33 | 3,453 |

## People named Berkley

- Berkley Bedell, American politician (1921-2019)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.