Meaning not yet researched.
Bernice: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #39 in 1921.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #39 in 1921; #4,082 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bernice in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,082 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1921, at #39.
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Bernice: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #39 in 1921 · most girls in one year: 6,190 (1921).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Bernice, making it the 4,082nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 250 places from #3,832 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 39 girls named Bernice in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #39, reached in 1921. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,190. For comparison, it was #3,004 in 2015 and #206 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bernice in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 59 babies with the name. In all, 185,533 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 56,896 babies named Bernice.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 488 US girls were named Bernice; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Berenice (9,524 babies since 1880), Berniece (9,909 babies since 1880) and Berneice (3,208 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bernyce, Bernece and Byrnece are summarised on this page.
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 Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bernyce (460), Bernece (405), Byrnece (26), Bernace (15), Bearnice (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bernice 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 | 35 | #4,082 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,832 | — | — |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,060 | — | — |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,117 | — | — |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,553 | — | — |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,009 | — | — |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,689 | — | — |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,517 | — | — |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,108 | — | — |
| 2015 | 57 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,426 | — | — |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,298 | — | — |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 2004 | 86 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 2001 | 105 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1998 | 101 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1996 | 116 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1995 | 109 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1994 | 137 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1993 | 126 | #1,326 | 6 | #7,729 |
| 1992 | 138 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1991 | 143 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1990 | 146 | #1,176 | 5 | #8,243 |
| 1989 | 144 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1988 | 140 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1987 | 132 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1986 | 107 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1985 | 146 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1984 | 157 | #936 | — | — |
| 1983 | 143 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1982 | 174 | #884 | 6 | #5,703 |
| 1981 | 169 | #891 | — | — |
| 1980 | 177 | #868 | — | — |
| 1979 | 165 | #903 | — | — |
| 1978 | 184 | #811 | 5 | #5,885 |
| 1977 | 182 | #824 | 5 | #5,935 |
| 1976 | 255 | #613 | 5 | #5,682 |
| 1975 | 222 | #674 | 6 | #4,854 |
| 1974 | 262 | #601 | 7 | #4,227 |
| 1973 | 265 | #592 | 10 | #3,248 |
| 1972 | 289 | #569 | 10 | #3,179 |
| 1971 | 326 | #553 | 5 | #4,983 |
| 1970 | 375 | #518 | 9 | #3,304 |
| 1969 | 385 | #495 | 14 | #2,318 |
| 1968 | 420 | #469 | 10 | #2,748 |
| 1967 | 457 | #441 | 7 | #3,268 |
| 1966 | 470 | #433 | 16 | #1,973 |
| 1965 | 565 | #389 | 12 | #2,378 |
| 1964 | 651 | #373 | 16 | #2,046 |
| 1963 | 702 | #359 | 15 | #2,121 |
| 1962 | 761 | #342 | 12 | #2,385 |
| 1961 | 764 | #344 | 10 | #2,727 |
| 1960 | 872 | #319 | 12 | #2,434 |
| 1959 | 852 | #319 | 20 | #1,809 |
| 1958 | 889 | #301 | 19 | #1,846 |
| 1957 | 982 | #288 | 19 | #1,840 |
| 1956 | 1,032 | #266 | 23 | #1,643 |
| 1955 | 1,045 | #256 | 23 | #1,615 |
| 1954 | 1,075 | #249 | 22 | #1,630 |
| 1953 | 1,156 | #237 | 16 | #1,967 |
| 1952 | 1,212 | #227 | 24 | #1,550 |
| 1951 | 1,286 | #213 | 28 | #1,410 |
| 1950 | 1,300 | #206 | 21 | #1,618 |
| 1949 | 1,380 | #198 | 35 | #1,207 |
| 1948 | 1,489 | #185 | 19 | #1,708 |
| 1947 | 1,688 | #172 | 36 | #1,216 |
| 1946 | 1,468 | #179 | 25 | #1,410 |
| 1945 | 1,477 | #157 | 24 | #1,350 |
| 1944 | 1,657 | #149 | 36 | #1,109 |
| 1943 | 1,890 | #143 | 38 | #1,109 |
| 1942 | 1,962 | #137 | 52 | #923 |
| 1941 | 1,934 | #133 | 42 | #988 |
| 1940 | 2,087 | #121 | 49 | #907 |
| 1939 | 2,123 | #116 | 51 | #857 |
| 1938 | 2,290 | #112 | 43 | #964 |
| 1937 | 2,384 | #104 | 49 | #881 |
| 1936 | 2,540 | #95 | 56 | #816 |
| 1935 | 2,777 | #90 | 75 | #697 |
| 1934 | 2,980 | #82 | 69 | #733 |
| 1933 | 3,009 | #83 | 72 | #711 |
| 1932 | 3,542 | #71 | 87 | #652 |
| 1931 | 3,821 | #63 | 72 | #719 |
| 1930 | 4,439 | #58 | 75 | #730 |
| 1929 | 4,551 | #55 | 90 | #649 |
| 1928 | 4,943 | #53 | 95 | #638 |
| 1927 | 5,305 | #49 | 115 | #576 |
| 1926 | 5,443 | #45 | 97 | #639 |
| 1925 | 5,728 | #46 | 89 | #678 |
| 1924 | 6,033 | #47 | 110 | #609 |
| 1923 | 5,809 | #43 | 104 | #626 |
| 1922 | 5,912 | #41 | 121 | #584 |
| 1921 | 6,190 | #39 | 119 | #581 |
| 1920 | 5,928 | #40 | 114 | #583 |
| 1919 | 5,793 | #42 | 103 | #593 |
| 1918 | 5,892 | #41 | 116 | #561 |
| 1917 | 5,546 | #42 | 73 | #715 |
| 1916 | 5,183 | #42 | 93 | #604 |
| 1915 | 4,937 | #42 | 93 | #591 |
| 1914 | 3,730 | #43 | 67 | #617 |
| 1913 | 3,036 | #45 | 51 | #616 |
| 1912 | 2,593 | #51 | 31 | #785 |
| 1911 | 1,915 | #51 | 25 | #609 |
| 1910 | 1,721 | #58 | 28 | #539 |
| 1909 | 1,337 | #62 | 21 | #575 |
| 1908 | 1,363 | #61 | 15 | #688 |
| 1907 | 1,185 | #65 | 22 | #495 |
| 1906 | 1,107 | #66 | 20 | #506 |
| 1905 | 1,032 | #74 | 20 | #507 |
| 1904 | 962 | #75 | 16 | #568 |
| 1903 | 868 | #77 | 11 | #703 |
| 1902 | 794 | #81 | 14 | #589 |
| 1901 | 660 | #86 | — | — |
| 1900 | 702 | #96 | 10 | #845 |
| 1899 | 515 | #103 | 8 | #791 |
| 1898 | 619 | #96 | 9 | #747 |
| 1897 | 519 | #103 | 16 | #497 |
| 1896 | 489 | #104 | 9 | #782 |
| 1895 | 447 | #109 | 6 | #992 |
| 1894 | 389 | #121 | 6 | #967 |
| 1893 | 340 | #125 | — | — |
| 1892 | 299 | #137 | 5 | #1,082 |
| 1891 | 248 | #142 | 11 | #567 |
| 1890 | 229 | #155 | 8 | #747 |
| 1889 | 206 | #154 | 7 | #802 |
| 1888 | 157 | #177 | 5 | #1,051 |
| 1887 | 127 | #178 | — | — |
| 1886 | 135 | #173 | — | — |
| 1885 | 96 | #193 | — | — |
| 1884 | 83 | #208 | — | — |
| 1883 | 69 | #210 | 7 | #729 |
| 1882 | 57 | #229 | — | — |
| 1881 | 48 | #222 | — | — |
| 1880 | 59 | #201 | — | — |
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).