Berry

127,443 people in the United States were counted with the surname Berry in the 2020 census, making it the 231st most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,345.

By the numbers

People: 127,443
Rank: 231st
How common: 1 in 2,345
Per 100,000: 42.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

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.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.9%
Black, not Hispanic 22.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Berry

Halle Berry (born 1966)American actress
Chuck Berry (1926–2017)American musician
Ken Berry (1933–2018)American actor
Richard Berry (born 1950)French actor, film director, screenwriter
Wendell Berry (born 1934)American writer
Bill Berry (born 1958)American musician; drummer for R.E.M.
Steve Berry (born 1955)American author and attorney
Marilou Berry (born 1983)French actress

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

Surnames like Berry

Also a first name

Berry has been given to 6,107 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1963. 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.