Berneice
Berneice was last recorded in 1976, when 5 babies were given it; 3,208 Americans have been recorded with it between 1891 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Berneice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Berneice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,426, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
154 babies in 1918, the peak
Berneice peaked in 1918, when 154 girls were given it, #574 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #9,426 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,093 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,642 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,068 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,674 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,466 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,631 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,766 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,326 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 7 | #4,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,502 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,934 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,830 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,583 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,630 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,130 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,912 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,161 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,699 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,611 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,492 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 33 | #1,420 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,474 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,273 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,194 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,162 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 54 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 44 | #1,040 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 56 | #917 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 56 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 83 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1931 | 75 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 64 | #910 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 83 | #767 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 85 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 102 | #715 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 85 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 107 | #712 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 135 | #643 | 0.11 |
| 1923 | 112 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1922 | 131 | #639 | 0.11 |
| 1921 | 117 | #685 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 123 | #651 | 0.10 |
| 1919 | 139 | #597 | 0.12 |
| 1918 | 154 | #574 | 0.13 |
| 1917 | 123 | #616 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 110 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1915 | 116 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1914 | 66 | #711 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 77 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1912 | 57 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1911 | 27 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 39 | #680 | 0.10 |
| 1909 | 28 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1908 | 26 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 20 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 21 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 21 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 26 | #684 | 0.09 |
| 1903 | 25 | #668 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 14 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 17 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 19 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 14 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,180 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,370 | 0.03 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,294 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,352 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Berneice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Berneice has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Berneice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Berneice, and how old are they?
An estimated 387 Americans named Berneice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 82 years old and half are between 73 and 89. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 435 people named Berneice (431 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 631 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Berneice born?
The states with the most babies named Berneice are Illinois, Texas and Michigan, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 185 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 125 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 117 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 104 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Iowa | 103 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Mississippi | 97 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Missouri | 80 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Oklahoma | 76 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 54 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arkansas | 50 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Berneice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Berneice is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1910 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Berneice with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 209,039 babies since 1880, Berneice is the fourth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 63 babies recorded by SSA was a Berneice (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Berneice
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Berneice and names like it
- Compare Berneice and BerniceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBerneice peaked in 1918.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Berneice since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Berneice.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Berneice alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with BMost given first.