Berry
About 6,107 American babies have been named Berry since 1880, most of them around 1963. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 3,000 Berrys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Berry boys named Berry
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,107
- Estimated living today
- 3,000
- Median age today
- 59
- Peak year
- 1963
- Best rank
- 746th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 370 / 5,737
How old the living Berrys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,107 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,000 are alive — 48 in every hundred. Roughly 180 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 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 a surname
Variant of Bury and (in dialects with Mary-marry-merry merger) Barry. The given name is also a pet form of names beginning with Ber-.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Berrys
- Berry Gordy (born 1929)American record producer, founder of Motown Records
- Berry van Aerle (born 1962)Dutch footballer
- Berry Berenson (1948–2001)American actress
- Berry Oakley (1948–1972)American bassist
- Berry Kroeger (1912–1991)American actor
- Berry Bickle (born 1959)Zimbabwean artist
People named Berry with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Berry is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Berry is most concentrated in Georgia (7.5×), South Carolina (5.7×), North Carolina (5.3×), Alabama (4.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1963
The most popular boys’ names the year Berry peaked:
Berry elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Berry | 167 | 1,707th |
| France girls | Berry | 10 | 7,402nd |
| France boys | Berry | 5 | 3,262nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Berry among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Berry | 1,669 | 2,008 |
| the Netherlands girls | Berry | 29 | 78 |
| Finland girls | Berry | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Berry 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.