Beryl
Beryl is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 374th, in 1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920311 births
- Best rank
- #374in 1920
- Since 1880
- 12,460people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,122 girls have been named Beryl in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 311 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 311 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 78 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Beryl is used for both sexes: 19% of its bearers are boys (2,338), most of them born around 1919.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Beryl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 163 | |
| 1890s | 374 | |
| 1900s | 687 | |
| 1910s | 1,806 | |
| 1920s | 2,256 | |
| 1930s | 1,558 | |
| 1940s | 1,253 | |
| 1950s | 1,128 | |
| 1960s | 416 | |
| 1970s | 109 | |
| 1980s | 105 | |
| 1990s | 91 | |
| 2000s | 46 | |
| 2010s | 95 | |
| 2020s | 35 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Beryl was the 374th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Beryl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vernapeak 1918
- Faypeak 1926
- Eunicepeak 1921
- Albertapeak 1919
- Corinepeak 1920
- Rosellapeak 1924
- Irenepeak 1921
- Leolapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.