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Berneice

Recorded 1891–1976 · United States

Berneice was most popular in 1918, when 154 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,046 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,208 people named Berneice.

Most popular in1918
Rank that year#1,046
Births that year154
Total since 18803,208
Given to100% girls
Alive today~418
Median age83

Berneice over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Berneice’s peak in 1918. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Berneice?

Berneice first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1891, which makes it about 134 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 74 of the 135 years since. It was last recorded in 1976.

How many people are named Berneice?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,208 American births named Berneice between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 418 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Berneice in 2025?

Berneice was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.

Is Berneice a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Berneice is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,208 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Berneice?

Roughly 418 Americans named Berneice are alive today — 13% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 83 years old, and half are between 74 and 89.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Berneice is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org