Berniece
Berniece was last recorded in 2013, when 6 babies were given it; 9,909 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Berniece and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 81 years old and half are between 71 and 88.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Berniece by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Berniece?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,900, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
476 babies in 1918, the peak
Berniece peaked in 1918, when 476 girls were given it, #291 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #14,900 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,299 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,258 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,944 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,422 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,764 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,468 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,688 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,652 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,799 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | #11,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,658 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,549 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,358 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,892 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,513 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,135 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,583 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,133 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,691 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,517 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,038 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,039 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,169 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,066 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,523 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,167 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,826 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,931 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,948 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,503 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,684 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,741 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,628 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 52 | #1,268 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 59 | #1,173 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 59 | #1,171 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 55 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 49 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 74 | #888 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 82 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 96 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 88 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 77 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 91 | #714 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 108 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 115 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1936 | 111 | #627 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 137 | #548 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 157 | #513 | 0.15 |
| 1933 | 140 | #536 | 0.14 |
| 1932 | 174 | #500 | 0.16 |
| 1931 | 197 | #460 | 0.19 |
| 1930 | 232 | #442 | 0.21 |
| 1929 | 229 | #434 | 0.21 |
| 1928 | 270 | #415 | 0.23 |
| 1927 | 285 | #405 | 0.24 |
| 1926 | 335 | #369 | 0.28 |
| 1925 | 342 | #368 | 0.28 |
| 1924 | 331 | #375 | 0.27 |
| 1923 | 364 | #345 | 0.30 |
| 1922 | 398 | #327 | 0.33 |
| 1921 | 416 | #325 | 0.34 |
| 1920 | 447 | #309 | 0.37 |
| 1919 | 400 | #316 | 0.35 |
| 1918 | 476 | #291 | 0.41 |
| 1917 | 422 | #302 | 0.39 |
| 1916 | 389 | #305 | 0.37 |
| 1915 | 385 | #296 | 0.39 |
| 1914 | 282 | #312 | 0.37 |
| 1913 | 235 | #310 | 0.38 |
| 1912 | 185 | #336 | 0.33 |
| 1911 | 122 | #360 | 0.29 |
| 1910 | 127 | #354 | 0.32 |
| 1909 | 69 | #446 | 0.20 |
| 1908 | 91 | #375 | 0.27 |
| 1907 | 82 | #391 | 0.26 |
| 1906 | 67 | #415 | 0.23 |
| 1905 | 66 | #421 | 0.23 |
| 1904 | 51 | #456 | 0.19 |
| 1903 | 61 | #406 | 0.23 |
| 1902 | 51 | #435 | 0.19 |
| 1901 | 40 | #475 | 0.17 |
| 1900 | 36 | #579 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 29 | #566 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 35 | #529 | 0.14 |
| 1897 | 26 | #595 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 21 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 14 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 20 | #665 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 11 | #908 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 17 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,107 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,014 | 0.04 |
| 1886 | 7 | #908 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Berniece a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Berniece has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Berniece: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Berniece, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 12% of the 9,909 Americans ever recorded as Berniece. The median Berniece alive today is 81 years old; half are between 71 and 88.
The 2020 Census counted 1,490 people named Berniece (1,486 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,839 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 543 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 440 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 57 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 24 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 44 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Berniece born?
The states with the most babies named Berniece are Missouri, Illinois and Iowa, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri and Iowa are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 598 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 537 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Iowa | 521 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Texas | 429 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 387 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Kansas | 361 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Michigan | 358 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 326 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Minnesota | 301 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Wisconsin | 298 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Berniece is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Berniece is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1910 it was given 2.8 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 Berniece 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, Berniece is the second most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 63 babies recorded by SSA was a Berniece (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 Berniece
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 Berniece and names like it
- Compare Berniece and BerniceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBerniece peaked in 1918.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Berniece since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Berniece.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Berniece alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with BMost given first.