Meaning and history
Latinized form of Βερενίκη (Berenike), the Macedonian form of the Greek name Φερενίκη (Pherenike), meaning “bringing victory” from φέρω (phero), “to bring,” and νίκη (nike), “victory.” It was common in the Ptolemy ruling family of Egypt, a dynasty originally from Macedon, and appears briefly in Acts in the New Testament, where most English Bibles spell it Bernice, as the name of a sister of King Herod Agrippa II. In English, Berenice came into use after the Protestant Reformation.
20062006: 252 births, rank #1,015
2007: 204 births, rank #1,224
2008: 192 births, rank #1,295
2009: 228 births, rank #1,112
2010: 147 births, rank #1,521
20112011: 109 births, rank #1,840
2012: 129 births, rank #1,651
2013: 102 births, rank #1,939
2014: 73 births, rank #2,469
2015: 59 births, rank #2,927
20162016: 89 births, rank #2,168
2017: 91 births, rank #2,108
2018: 72 births, rank #2,457
2019: 79 births, rank #2,285
2020: 63 births, rank #2,659
20212021: 47 births, rank #3,339
2022: 41 births, rank #3,703
2023: 43 births, rank #3,585
2024: 40 births, rank #3,758
20252025: 28 births, rank #4,758
Berenice moved from #843 to #857 for girls between 2002 and 2003. Its highest annual birth count came in 1995, with 326 births.