Given name
Beret
“a glorious woman”
Beret is a variant of Berit. One German interpretation is “a glorious woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Beret is a variant of Berit. One German interpretation is “a glorious woman.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Beret through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 0 boys · 15 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 121 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Beret’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Beret has a conventional equivalent in the German form Brigitte. Beret has a related form in Berit.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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