Entry № 1392 · Greek origin

Beryl Beryl — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEH-ril /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"A pale green gemstone"

Syllables

First recorded

Traditional

The meaning

A name that means "a pale green gemstone".

Beryl is the lovely pale green-blue gem — the mineral family that gives us both emerald and aquamarine.

A pale green gemstone — a Greek name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Beryl

Transliteration: Beryl
Pronunciation: / ˈbɛ.ɾil /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Beryl stands.

Beryl does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Beryls before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Beryl.

Numerology

The number behind Beryl.

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Beryl reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.