Berlin

7,082 people in the United States were counted with the surname Berlin in the 2020 census, making it the 4,836th most common in the country. That is about one person in 42,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,082
Rank: 4,836th
How common: 1 in 42,200
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Berlin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Berlin

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997)Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Irving Berlin (1888–1989)American composer and lyricist
Jeannie Berlin (born 1949)American actress
Lucia Berlin (1936–2004)American writer
Laura Berlin (born 1990)German actress and model
Per Berlin (1921–2011)wrestler
Jeff Berlin (born 1953)American musician
Wilhelm Berlin (1889–1987)German general and Knight's Cross recipient

People named Berlin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Berlin

Also a first name

Berlin has been given to 3,431 American babies as a first name since 1899, peaking in 2011. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.