Berenice
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Berenice
A name with a surprising amount of history--it was the name of the wife of Ptolemy I of Egypt, occurs in the New Testament, and belonged to a fourth century saint. In the US, it has long been spelled and pronounced Bernice. Nicknames include Bernie, Berry, Binnie and Bunny.
Berenice is also given to boys.
Pronounced ber-uh-NEES.
As of October 2026, Berenice ranked #4784 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #510 in 1898.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,472 | 73 | 40.9 |
| 2015 | #2,935 | 59 | 33.1 |
| 2016 | #2,172 | 89 | 50.2 |
| 2017 | #2,112 | 91 | 52.7 |
| 2018 | #2,457 | 72 | 42.3 |
| 2019 | #2,290 | 79 | 47.1 |
| 2020 | #2,659 | 63 | 39 |
| 2021 | #3,348 | 47 | 28.6 |
| 2022 | #3,711 | 41 | 25 |
| 2023 | #3,597 | 43 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | #3,755 | 40 | 24.7 |
| 2025 | #4,784 | 28 | 17.4 |
World rankings
Berenice for girls
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Berenice on lists
Famous Berenices
- Berenice IGirl
III, queens of Egypt
- Berenice IVGirl
sister of Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of Egypt
- Berenice of CiliciaGirl
1st century Queen of Judaea
- Berenice (born Bernice) AbbottGirl
American photographer
- Berenice BejoGirl
French actress
- Berenice Lim MarloheGirl
French actress
- Berenice SydneyGirl
English painter
- MaéGirl
Bérénice Méité, French figure skater
Berenice in pop culture
- Berenice Sadie BrownGirl
black cook with a blue glass eye, married four times, in 'The Member of the Wedding' (1946) by Carson McCullers
- BereniceGirl
whose brightly white teeth are drawn by Egaeus while she is in a trance, in Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'Berenice' (1840)
- "BereniceGirl
" play by Jean Racine (1670)
- "BereniceGirl
" opera by George Frideric Handel
- Variation of Ancient Greek BerenikeGirl
from the name Pherenike
- Usual English pronunciation: bareGirl
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