How Many People Are Named Bernice?
people named Bernice are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 8,779 people in the US has this name
Based on 185,533 babies named Bernice in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
๐ Rare
Peak Year
6,309 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
๐ Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Contracted form of BERENICE. It occurs briefly in Acts in the New Testament belonging to a sister of King Herod Agrippa II.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Bernice in English. Counting Bernice and these spellings together, about 47,491 people alive in the US have the name.
โง Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Bernice, 98.6% were girls and 1.5% were boys.
๐ฅ Age Distribution
The average person named Bernice alive today is about 70 years old, and 78% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 62 and 84 in 2025.
๐ Popularity Over Time
Bernice first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1921, to 6,309 babies. In 2025, 35 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
๐ Rank History
Bernice never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #39, in 1921, and it was in the top 100 in 38 years between 1898 and 1936. In 2025 it ranked #4,081.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,081 |
| Best rank | #39 (1921) |
| Years in the top 100 | 38 (1898 to 1936) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #46 in the 1920s |
๐ State-Wise Distribution
People named Bernice alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Bernice were born in New York than in any other state: about 3,096 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Bernice was given 1.7 times as often in Mississippi, 1.7 times in Wisconsin and 1.6 times in Minnesota.
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