Berry
Berry is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 305th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1963108 births
- Best rank
- #305in 1880
- Since 1880
- 6,103people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,733 boys have been named Berry in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 108 births.
The name has all but left use: 10 births in 2024, against 108 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1960s alone account for 14%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 370 girls have also been given it, 6.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Berry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 234 | |
| 1890s | 183 | |
| 1900s | 215 | |
| 1910s | 469 | |
| 1920s | 612 | |
| 1930s | 529 | |
| 1940s | 615 | |
| 1950s | 796 | |
| 1960s | 807 | |
| 1970s | 525 | |
| 1980s | 353 | |
| 1990s | 188 | |
| 2000s | 94 | |
| 2010s | 65 | |
| 2020s | 48 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Berry was the 748th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1963 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Berry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Irapeak 1947
- Wileypeak 1921
- Napoleonpeak 1926
- Columbuspeak 1922
- Benpeak 1918
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Guspeak 1921
- Alonzapeak 1961
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.