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Berneice

The girl's name Berneice has been in the national records since 1891, with 3,208 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1976. About 410 Berneices are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 82.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Berneice

By the numbers

Total US births
3,208
Estimated living today
410
Median age today
82
Peak year
1918
Best rank
574th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1891

How old the living Berneices are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,208 babies given the name since 1891, about 410 are alive — 13 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1943 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Berneice is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Berneice is most concentrated in Iowa (6.2×), Mississippi (6.1×), Oklahoma (4.4×), Kansas (3.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1918

The most popular girls’ names the year Berneice peaked:

All the names of 1918

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.