Eunice
Eunice is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 100 births. Its best rank was 106th, in 1908.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1000.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19212,240 births
- Best rank
- #106in 1908
- Since 1880
- 81,437people given the name
The story in the numbers
80,259 girls have been named Eunice in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 2,240 births — 0.18% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 100 births in 2024, against 2,240 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 115 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,178 boys have also been given it, 1.4% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Eunice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,216 | |
| 1890s | 3,244 | |
| 1900s | 5,376 | |
| 1910s | 15,474 | |
| 1920s | 20,172 | |
| 1930s | 11,601 | |
| 1940s | 7,060 | |
| 1950s | 4,494 | |
| 1960s | 2,642 | |
| 1970s | 1,669 | |
| 1980s | 1,683 | |
| 1990s | 1,989 | |
| 2000s | 1,718 | |
| 2010s | 1,428 | |
| 2020s | 493 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Eunice was the 120th 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 Eunice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vernapeak 1918
- Irenepeak 1921
- Alinepeak 1920
- Ionapeak 1918
- Eldapeak 1916
- Berylpeak 1920
- Albertapeak 1919
- Rosellapeak 1924
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.