Bernice — #3810 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Bernice

The Social Security Administration has registered 182,094 babies named Bernice between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bernice currently holds the #3810 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 6,190 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bernice performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 55,842 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Bernice shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 12,610 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Bernice in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bernice in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 182,094 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.