Bergen
About 954 American babies have been named Bergen since 1928, most of them around 2025. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 4,661st. About 940 Bergens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Bergen
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Bergen crossed from girls to boys in 2000, and has stayed there for 9 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 66% boys, and in 2025 it was 22%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 17 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
- 954
- Estimated living today
- 940
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 4,661st
- Rank in 2025
- 4,661st
- First recorded
- 1928
- Girls / boys
- 551 / 403
How old the living Bergens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 954 babies given the name since 1928, about 940 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 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 Bergen is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bergen is most concentrated in Nebraska (41.0×), Minnesota (19.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Bergen peaked:
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Bergen against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.