Berl
The boy's name Berl has been in the national records since 1912, with 1,094 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 5,608th. About 510 Berls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,094
- Estimated living today
- 510
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 1,470th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,608th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 1,089
How old the living Berls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,094 babies given the name since 1912, about 510 are alive — 47 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 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.
Notable Berls
- Berl Katznelson (1887–1944)Israeli labor Zionist intellectual
People named Berl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Berl is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Berl is most concentrated in New York (11.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Berl peaked:
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Berl 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.