Bernice

Where Bernice comes from

Biblical form of Berenice, from Ancient Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē).
— Wiktionary's entry for Bernice
  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #201 among girls — 59 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1921
    Peak, #39
    6,190 babies named Bernice — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1933
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #83.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes

No widely known Bernice turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.