Bernice
Bernice is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 39 births. Its best rank was 39th, in 1921.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 390.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19216,190 births
- Best rank
- #39in 1921
- Since 1880
- 185,497people given the name
The story in the numbers
182,094 girls have been named Bernice in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 6,190 births — 0.50% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 39 births in 2024, against 6,190 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 31%. It has spent 105 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 38 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 3,403 boys have also been given it, 1.8% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Bernice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,037 | |
| 1890s | 4,094 | |
| 1900s | 10,010 | |
| 1910s | 40,346 | |
| 1920s | 55,842 | |
| 1930s | 29,905 | |
| 1940s | 17,031 | |
| 1950s | 10,830 | |
| 1960s | 6,047 | |
| 1970s | 2,525 | |
| 1980s | 1,489 | |
| 1990s | 1,249 | |
| 2000s | 868 | |
| 2010s | 610 | |
| 2020s | 211 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Bernice was the 39th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Bernice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Allenepeak 1926
- Florinepeak 1921
- Genevapeak 1924
- Paulinepeak 1918
- Elverapeak 1921
- Lucillepeak 1920
- Lorenepeak 1920
- Myrticepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.