Meaning and history
Contracted form of Berenice, used briefly in Acts in the New Testament for the sister of King Herod Agrippa II.
20062006: 81 births, rank #2,328
2007: 80 births, rank #2,368
2008: 85 births, rank #2,295
2009: 80 births, rank #2,396
2010: 66 births, rank #2,691
20112011: 62 births, rank #2,796
2012: 47 births, rank #3,419
2013: 71 births, rank #2,508
2014: 66 births, rank #2,648
2015: 57 births, rank #3,001
20162016: 53 births, rank #3,100
2017: 71 births, rank #2,508
2018: 64 births, rank #2,677
2019: 54 births, rank #3,002
2020: 42 births, rank #3,546
20212021: 52 births, rank #3,112
2022: 42 births, rank #3,653
2023: 36 births, rank #4,047
2024: 39 births, rank #3,822
20252025: 35 births, rank #4,067
Bernice rose from #1000 to #936 for girls between 1983 and 1984. Its highest annual birth count came in 1921, with 6,190 births.