Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Bernice

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Bernice
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.4% from peak

Peak era

1921

Peak rank proxy

6,190

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19212024

Peak year

1921

Decline from peak

99.4%

2024

All-time

182,094

Bernice once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1921, when 6,190 girls were named Bernice.

In 2024, only 39 girls were given the name.

Down 99.4% from its peak.

All told, about 182,094 Americans have been named Bernice and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.4% from peak

19216,190 girls named Bernice

202439 girls named Bernice

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