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Berniece

Girls' name

Variant of Bernice

Berniece has been given to 9,909 babies in the U.S. since 1886. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 476 recorded.

Babies named Berniece, 2013

1 in 608,000

Berniece over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Berniece: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Bernice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Berniece means

Berniece is a variant of Bernice.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Berniece is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /bəɹ.ˈnis/ and /bə.ˈniːs/ for Berniece.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Berniece → Bernice → Berenice. The family’s meaning is “bringer of victory”, recorded in English with the source elements Berenī́kē.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bernice.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,909 girls were recorded with the name Berniece between 1886 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 476 in 1918; its best national rank was #291 in 1918.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Berniece?

Berniece had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Berniece sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Berniece. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bernieces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Berniece was born before 1922 — so the typical Berniece is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
34.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.71%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
507
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (3,417).

Is Berniece rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (476)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#291
1918

Spellings of Berniece

Berniece is not the most common spelling — Bernice is, with 84.0% against Berniece's 4.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Berniece is used

Across 1910–2025, Berniece was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 3,704 girls, against 1 in 20,959 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

027 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 3,704
  2. 2Iowa1 in 4,000
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 4,000
  4. 4North Dakota1 in 4,167
  5. 5Kansas1 in 4,545
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 5,882
  7. 7Missouri1 in 5,882
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 6,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Berniece has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Berniece by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#291
1918
Peak year
1918
476 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
9,909
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Berniece

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BereniceBerkleyBerneceBernadineBerkeleyBertieBerylBerneiceBernettaBertaBernitaBerkleeJanieceBerlinBernadetteBerkleighBeronicaBerlindaBerniceBerlynnBernetteBerlynBernardineBerenise

Names with a curve like Berniece

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Berniece, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

IoneIolaMaurineMozelleRubyeLeotaElveraPhilomenaVerdaEdytheOletaIona

Sibling names for Berniece

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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