Biruk
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- bih-ROOK
- Origin
- Amharic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Biruk is a boys' name of Amharic origin, meaning “blessed”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Biruk mean?
Amharic
“blessed”
A common Ethiopian name, from the same Semitic root as Hebrew Baruch, 'blessed'.
Is Biruk a girl's or a boy's name?
Biruk is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Biruk in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Biruk, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2017, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Biruk in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Biruk in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,638 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,522 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,553 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 8 | #8,980 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 9 | #7,992 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
Names like Biruk
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa, Zahir, Zamir, Hamza, Zayan, Zayd, Azai, Ayaan, Zymir, Khaza, Jasai, Tatum
Names related to Biruk
More Amharic names
Amare, Aryam, Gelila, Mahelet, Nolawi, Haset, Tafari, Leul, Naod, Kidus, Melat, Haile, Menelik, Nuhamin, Meklit, Kirubel
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, “Biruk: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/biruk, updated 20 October 2026.