Berenice
Berenice is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 40 births. Its best rank was 510th, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 400.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1995326 births
- Best rank
- #510in 1898
- Since 1883
- 9,485people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,485 girls have been named Berenice in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 326 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 27%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Berenice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 57 | |
| 1890s | 231 | |
| 1900s | 288 | |
| 1910s | 712 | |
| 1920s | 570 | |
| 1930s | 190 | |
| 1940s | 110 | |
| 1950s | 78 | |
| 1960s | 61 | |
| 1970s | 182 | |
| 1980s | 788 | |
| 1990s | 2,552 | |
| 2000s | 2,482 | |
| 2010s | 950 | |
| 2020s | 234 |
In 1995, its biggest year
Berenice was the 656th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1995 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Berenice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Madelinepeak 1998
- Isabelpeak 2006
- Chaneypeak 2003
- Olivapeak 1990
- Ysabelpeak 1998
- Coralpeak 2004
- Sabinapeak 2005
- Mercedespeak 1991
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.