Bernice

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bernice: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bernice: Recorded since 1964, its highest recorded position is #236, and it stood at #4,192 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
65times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#236highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1296
1997	#1074
1998	#1319
1999	#1557
2000	#2167
2001	#1728
2002	#2105
2003	#2191
2004	#2278
2005	#2970
2006	#1983
2007	#2085
2008	#2150
2009	#1668
2010	#2392
2011	#1807
2012	#2338
2013	#1956
2014	#1882
2015	#2070
2016	#2120
2017	#1411
2018	#1788
2019	#2458
2020	#2843
2021	#5581
2022	#2488
2023	#1705
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 36 of the 52 years from 1964 to 2015.

In 2015: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2070 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1964–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #257 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1964–2015
Highest recorded position: #236 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1966 (recorded 1964–2015).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Bernice appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 36 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 260 births with the name.

Bernice across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bernice's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#257 (1964)	#236 (1966)	#896 (2015)	36 of 52	260 (1964–2015)	15 (1979)
England and Wales · Girls	#1296 (1996)	#1074 (1997)	#4192 (2024)	29 of 29	336 (1996–2024)	23 (2017)

Bernice by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bernice in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	43	6 of 10	7
1970sbusiest	97	10 of 10	10
1980s	74	10 of 10	7
1990s	23	3 of 10	8
2000s	10	3 of 10	3
2010s	13	4 of 10	3

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Bernice appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #236 in Republic of Ireland in 1966.

Bernice's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1705	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1788	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1411	23	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2120	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1882	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1956	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2338	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1807	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2150	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1557	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1319	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1074	18	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1296	14	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#322	9	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	6	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	8	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#332	8	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#290	11	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#386	6	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#388	6	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	9	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#414	5	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#438	5	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#333	9	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#386	6	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#337	9	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#273	15	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	7	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#329	9	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#284	11	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#343	7	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#324	8	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#305	10	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#259	13	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#277	10	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#307	7	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#265	10	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#307	6	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#288	6	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#236	9	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#297	5	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#257	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1964 and 2024, ranked in 58 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #236, first reached in 1966.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 23 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 32 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Bernardo · #329, 21y
Bernhard · #189, 79y
Bernie · #298, 24y
Bernt · #83, 61y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Olwyn · #236, 53y
Torben · #231, 60y
Rowena · #245, 53y
Abdi · #247, 60y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Derval · #236, 23y
Dymphna · #236, 16y
Olwyn · #236, 53y
Ciaron · #235, 19y

Bernice was ranked #236 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1966. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Bernice and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bernice without appearing here.

Bernice moved ahead of

Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2488 and #5669.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #5493.
Kirsten Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5581 and #5581 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1705 and #4056.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1728 and #3998.

Moved ahead of Bernice

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #1286.
Marilyn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1705 and #2063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #1541.
Dylan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1705 and #1959 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #1743.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1705 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Bernice

Aisling Compare
Between 1964 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bernice went from #257 to #896 while Aisling went from #154 to #81.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1964 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bernice went from #257 to #896 while Alexandra went from #222 to #78.
Anna Compare
Between 1964 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bernice went from #257 to #896 while Anna went from #34 to #14.
Charlotte Compare
Between 1964 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bernice went from #257 to #896 while Charlotte went from #171 to #58.

Moved the same way as Bernice

Alma Compare
Between 1964 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bernice went from #257 to #896 and Alma from #327 to #581.
Audrey Compare
Between 1964 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bernice went from #257 to #896 and Audrey from #85 to #532.
Eileen Compare
Between 1964 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bernice went from #257 to #896 and Eileen from #17 to #362.
Evelyn Compare
Between 1964 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bernice went from #257 to #896 and Evelyn from #83 to #127.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #236 in Republic of Ireland in 1966. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bernice

Bernice at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bernice across 2 official records

Bernice by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Bernice appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Bernice and the names beside it

Bernice moved ahead of

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Bernice at a glance

Bernice across 2 official records

Bernice by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Bernice appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Bernice

Bernice and the names beside it

Bernice moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bernice

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Moved the same way as Bernice