In 2025, 77 US girls were named Eunice, making it the 2,362nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 391 places from #1,971 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 100 girls named Eunice in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #106, reached in 1908. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,240, in 1921. For comparison, it was #1,538 in 2015 and #332 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eunice in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 67 babies with the name. In all, 81,514 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 20,485 babies named Eunice.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,113 US girls were named Eunice; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 151. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,874 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eunice ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,353 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Inice, Enyce and Enice are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Nicie.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.