Meaning not yet researched.
Berenice: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #510 in 1898.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #510 in 1898; #4,784 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Berenice in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,784 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1898, at #510.
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Berenice: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 girls in 2025. Peak: #510 in 1898 · most girls in one year: 326 (1995).
In 2025, 28 US girls were named Berenice, making it the 4,784th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,015 places from #3,769 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 40 girls named Berenice in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #510, reached in 1898. The most girls given the name in a single year was 326, in 1995. For comparison, it was #2,935 in 2015 and #3,067 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Berenice in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 8 babies. In all, 9,524 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,563 babies named Berenice.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 593 US girls were named Berenice; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bernice (185,533 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Berenice in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,784 | — | — |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,769 | — | — |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,599 | — | — |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,713 | — | — |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,350 | — | — |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 2019 | 79 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,459 | — | — |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,935 | — | — |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 2013 | 102 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 2012 | 129 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 2010 | 147 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 2009 | 228 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 2008 | 192 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 2007 | 204 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 2006 | 252 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 2005 | 235 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 2004 | 231 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 2003 | 282 | #857 | — | — |
| 2002 | 274 | #843 | — | — |
| 2001 | 308 | #770 | — | — |
| 2000 | 276 | #818 | — | — |
| 1999 | 263 | #825 | — | — |
| 1998 | 282 | #762 | — | — |
| 1997 | 236 | #865 | — | — |
| 1996 | 281 | #752 | — | — |
| 1995 | 326 | #656 | 5 | #9,006 |
| 1994 | 268 | #766 | — | — |
| 1993 | 300 | #711 | 6 | #7,727 |
| 1992 | 242 | #827 | — | — |
| 1991 | 202 | #942 | — | — |
| 1990 | 152 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1989 | 164 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1988 | 111 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1985 | 71 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,730 | — | — |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,935 | — | — |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,408 | — | — |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,221 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,617 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,512 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,440 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,690 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,314 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,324 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,640 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,863 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,517 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,893 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,903 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,447 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,076 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,150 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,932 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,094 | — | — |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,339 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,622 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,154 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,046 | — | — |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,716 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,914 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,465 | — | — |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,003 | — | — |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,889 | — | — |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 1927 | 55 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1926 | 49 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1925 | 56 | #997 | — | — |
| 1924 | 70 | #905 | — | — |
| 1923 | 72 | #865 | — | — |
| 1922 | 51 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1921 | 68 | #892 | — | — |
| 1920 | 89 | #771 | — | — |
| 1919 | 83 | #773 | — | — |
| 1918 | 89 | #756 | — | — |
| 1917 | 95 | #709 | — | — |
| 1916 | 97 | #695 | — | — |
| 1915 | 104 | #648 | — | — |
| 1914 | 54 | #790 | — | — |
| 1913 | 52 | #722 | — | — |
| 1912 | 60 | #640 | — | — |
| 1911 | 46 | #636 | — | — |
| 1910 | 32 | #755 | — | — |
| 1909 | 30 | #732 | — | — |
| 1908 | 35 | #652 | — | — |
| 1907 | 28 | #711 | — | — |
| 1906 | 26 | #718 | — | — |
| 1905 | 21 | #800 | — | — |
| 1904 | 25 | #702 | — | — |
| 1903 | 36 | #539 | — | — |
| 1902 | 29 | #612 | — | — |
| 1901 | 29 | #577 | — | — |
| 1900 | 29 | #657 | — | — |
| 1899 | 25 | #617 | — | — |
| 1898 | 37 | #510 | — | — |
| 1897 | 23 | #645 | — | — |
| 1896 | 29 | #565 | — | — |
| 1895 | 23 | #640 | — | — |
| 1894 | 23 | #609 | — | — |
| 1893 | 23 | #595 | — | — |
| 1892 | 20 | #643 | — | — |
| 1891 | 19 | #609 | — | — |
| 1890 | 9 | #948 | — | — |
| 1889 | 20 | #570 | — | — |
| 1887 | 12 | #663 | — | — |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #851 | — | — |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1883 | 8 | #701 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).