Berniece
Berniece is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 291st, in 1918.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918476 births
- Best rank
- #291in 1918
- Since 1886
- 9,909people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,909 girls have been named Berniece in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 476 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 476 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 34%. It has spent 54 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Berniece | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1890s | 188 | |
| 1900s | 614 | |
| 1910s | 3,023 | |
| 1920s | 3,417 | |
| 1930s | 1,462 | |
| 1940s | 691 | |
| 1950s | 299 | |
| 1960s | 87 | |
| 1970s | 41 | |
| 1980s | 10 | |
| 1990s | 26 | |
| 2000s | 27 | |
| 2010s | 17 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Berniece was the 291st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Berniece
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elverapeak 1921
- Berneicepeak 1918
- Mozellepeak 1920
- Orenepeak 1919
- Antonettapeak 1915
- Alverapeak 1918
- Mozellpeak 1925
- Dorothapeak 1921
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.