Bereket
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- beh-REH-ket
- Origin
- Amharic
- US rank, 2025
- #7,190 for boys
Bereket is a boys' name of Amharic origin, meaning “blessing”. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).
What does Bereket mean?
Amharic: Amharic and Tigrinya, from a Semitic root
“blessing”
An Ethiopian and Eritrean name meaning 'blessing', from the same Semitic root as Arabic baraka.
Is Bereket a girl's or a boy's name?
Bereket is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bereket in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,190among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 11about 1 in 160,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Bereket, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the boys named Bereket in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Bereket in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,190 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,785 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,919 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,553 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,305 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,758 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,941 |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,081 |
Names like Bereket
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Beckett Elian Bellamy Eliam Tadeo Beckham Bennett Everest Baker Baylor Benicio Eliel
More Amharic names
Amare Aryam Gelila Mahelet Nolawi Haset Tafari Bruk Leul Naod Kidus Melat Haile Menelik Nuhamin Meklit
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Bereket: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bereket, updated 20 October 2026.