Berlin
Berlin is a girl's name that peaked in 2011, when it was the 2,017th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,780th. About 2,400 Berlins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Berlin
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Berlin crossed from boys to girls in 1989, and has stayed there for 26 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, and in 2025 it was 67%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 46 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,431
- Estimated living today
- 2,400
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 2,017th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,780th
- First recorded
- 1899
- Girls / boys
- 1,796 / 1,635
How old the living Berlins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,431 babies given the name since 1899, about 2,400 are alive — 70 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 210 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin German
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Berlin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Berlin is most concentrated in Utah (6.3×), California (5.7×), West Virginia (4.1×), Kentucky (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2011
The most popular girls’ names the year Berlin peaked:
Berlin by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Berlin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.