1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 10 boys were named Berry, about 1 in every 171,531.
- It peaked in 1963 with 108 babies, ranked #749.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 5,733 boys have been named Berry since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Berry per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,144 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Silent: 1,004 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,516 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 926 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 456 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 159 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 89 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
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-. ==== Proper noun ==== Berry A surname from Middle English. A male given name transferred from the surname. 1930 P. G. Wodehouse, Big Money, Colliers' Weekly, Vol.86, page 110: "Beresford Conway. All my pals call me Berry." A place name: A town in Fayette County, Alabama, United States, named after Thompson Berry. A minor city in Harrison County, Kentucky, United States. A town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- (rare) A female given name from English.
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Berry, CC BY-SA 4.0.