girls:
9.4k births since 1883
#1662 (71st percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1993
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
9.5k births since 1883
#2769 (64th percentile)
The name Berenice is the #2,769 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,453 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 64.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,662 (70.9% percentile) for all time with 9,442 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1993.
Berenice first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1993 for boys). Birth data for Berenice is available in 137 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (137 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Berenice has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Berenice reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 36.2% percentile (ranked #542) with 170 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 170 births per million (ranked 36.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Berenice ranks #909 for girls (4.0% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 14.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Berenice reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #768) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Berenice".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Berenice. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.9% confident that Berenice is pronounced as beh-ruh-NEES, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEH-ruh-NEES, at 18.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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