Berklee
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- BERK-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #3,130 for girls
Berklee is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “birch clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 3,130th for girls in the US (51 babies).
What does Berklee mean?
English: variant of Berkeley, an English place name and surname
“birch clearing”
Berklee College of Music in Boston uses this spelling of Berkeley.
Is Berklee a girl's or a boy's name?
Berklee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 51 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Berklee in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,130th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 51 about 1 in 32,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 47% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 51 girls in the US were named Berklee, making it the 3,130th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,991st. Its busiest year was 2018, with 127 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
Half of all the girls named Berklee in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 434 girls in the US were given Berklee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #664, up from #3,130 for this spelling alone.
Berklee in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,130 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,395 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,614 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,756 |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,085 |
| 2020 | 94 | #1,991 |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,128 |
| 2018 | 127 | #1,656 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,744 |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,908 |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,471 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,583 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,776 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,900 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,722 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,888 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,369 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,880 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,003 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,865 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
Names like Berklee
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee, Journee, Blakely, Briar, Brylee, Braylee, Oakley, Baylor, Ellie, Londyn, Collins, Sevyn
Other spellings of Berklee
Names related to Berklee
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
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, “Berklee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/berklee, updated 20 October 2026.