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How popular is “Bernice” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bernice” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bernice” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bernice” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bernice” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bernice” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bernice” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bernice” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 59 0.000292827 59 100%
1881 48 0.000249107 48 100%
1882 57 0.000257298 57 100%
1883 76 0.000350318 69 7 82%
1884 83 0.000340917 83 100%
1885 96 0.000398582 96 100%
1886 135 0.000528757 135 100%
1887 127 0.000513355 127 100%
1888 162 0.000540948 157 5 94%
1889 213 0.000737162 206 7 93%
1890 237 0.000786328 229 8 93%
1891 259 0.000903468 248 11 92%
1892 304 0.000909162 299 5 97%
1893 340 0.001045436 340 100%
1894 395 0.001166258 389 6 97%
1895 453 0.001290525 447 6 97%
1896 498 0.001393069 489 9 96%
1897 535 0.001541978 519 16 94%
1898 628 0.001646328 619 9 97%
1899 523 0.001541709 515 8 97%
1900 712 0.001581316 702 10 97%
1901 660 0.001908551 660 100%
1902 808 0.002089297 794 14 97%
1903 879 0.002305876 868 11 97%
1904 978 0.002423882 962 16 97%
1905 1052 0.002481589 1032 20 96%
1906 1127 0.002630406 1107 20 96%
1907 1207 0.002593524 1185 22 96%
1908 1378 0.00282002 1363 15 98%
1909 1358 0.00265637 1337 21 97%
1910 1749 0.002960839 1721 28 97%
1911 1940 0.003011123 1915 25 97%
1912 2624 0.002655704 2593 31 98%
1913 3087 0.002714777 3036 51 97%
1914 3797 0.002680846 3730 67 96%
1915 5030 0.002744995 4937 93 96%
1916 5276 0.002727437 5183 93 96%
1917 5619 0.00280005 5546 73 97%
1918 6008 0.002767247 5892 116 96%
1919 5896 0.002793988 5793 103 97%
1920 6042 0.002670328 5928 114 96%
1921 6309 0.0027025 6190 119 96%
1922 6033 0.002635469 5912 121 96%
1923 5913 0.002568099 5809 104 96%
1924 6143 0.002579348 6033 110 96%
1925 5817 0.002493033 5728 89 97%
1926 5540 0.002412992 5443 97 96%
1927 5420 0.002336854 5305 115 96%
1928 5038 0.002228279 4943 95 96%
1929 4641 0.002117089 4551 90 96%
1930 4514 0.002030326 4439 75 97%
1931 3894 0.001850419 3822 72 96%
1932 3629 0.001718853 3542 87 95%
1933 3080 0.001540426 3008 72 95%
1934 3049 0.001468113 2980 69 95%
1935 2852 0.001364659 2777 75 95%
1936 2596 0.001249532 2540 56 96%
1937 2433 0.001141894 2384 49 96%
1938 2333 0.001054428 2290 43 96%
1939 2174 0.000986638 2123 51 95%
1940 2136 0.000927613 2087 49 95%
1941 1976 0.000811024 1934 42 96%
1942 2014 0.000737238 1962 52 95%
1943 1928 0.000683068 1890 38 96%
1944 1694 0.000629721 1658 36 96%
1945 1500 0.000565417 1476 24 97%
1946 1493 0.000467248 1468 25 97%
1947 1724 0.00047858 1688 36 96%
1948 1508 0.000436783 1489 19 97%
1949 1414 0.000405765 1379 35 95%
1950 1322 0.000377352 1301 21 97%
1951 1314 0.000356703 1286 28 96%
1952 1236 0.000325434 1212 24 96%
1953 1172 0.000304128 1156 16 97%
1954 1097 0.000275579 1075 22 96%
1955 1068 0.000265997 1045 23 96%
1956 1055 0.000255879 1032 23 96%
1957 1001 0.000238212 982 19 96%
1958 908 0.000219647 889 19 96%
1959 872 0.000209717 852 20 95%
1960 884 0.000212816 872 12 97%
1961 773 0.000186611 763 10 97%
1962 773 0.000191556 761 12 97%
1963 717 0.000181143 702 15 96%
1964 667 0.000171571 651 16 95%
1965 577 0.000159153 565 12 96%
1966 487 0.000140117 471 16 93%
1967 464 0.000136676 457 7 97%
1968 430 0.000127279 420 10 95%
1969 399 0.000114809 385 14 93%
1970 384 0.000106474 375 9 95%
1971 331 0.000096435 326 5 97%
1972 299 0.000095132 289 10 93%
1973 275 0.000091154 265 10 93%
1974 269 0.000088487 262 7 95%
1975 228 0.000075512 222 6 95%
1976 260 0.000085687 255 5 96%
1977 187 0.00005887 182 5 95%
1978 189 0.000059549 184 5 95%
1979 165 0.000049594 165 100%
1980 177 0.000051386 177 100%
1981 169 0.000048853 169 100%
1982 180 0.000051312 174 6 93%
1983 143 0.00004129 143 100%
1984 157 0.000045002 157 100%
1985 146 0.000040907 146 100%
1986 107 0.000030081 107 100%
1987 132 0.00003661 132 100%
1988 140 0.000037889 140 100%
1989 144 0.000037457 144 100%
1990 151 0.000038204 146 5 93%
1991 143 0.000036711 143 100%
1992 138 0.000035926 138 100%
1993 132 0.000035011 126 6 91%
1994 137 0.000036851 137 100%
1995 109 0.000029764 109 100%
1996 116 0.000031805 116 100%
1997 111 0.000030614 111 100%
1998 101 0.000027459 101 100%
1999 122 0.000033028 122 100%
2000 97 0.000025662 97 100%
2001 105 0.000028049 105 100%
2002 88 0.00002354 88 100%
2003 82 0.000021566 82 100%
2004 86 0.000022508 86 100%
2005 84 0.000021847 84 100%
2006 81 0.000020474 81 100%
2007 80 0.000020012 80 100%
2008 85 0.000021625 85 100%
2009 80 0.000020941 80 100%
2010 66 0.000017858 66 100%
2011 62 0.00001695 62 100%
2012 47 0.000012851 47 100%
2013 71 0.000019475 71 100%
2014 65 0.000017537 65 100%
2015 57 0.000015402 57 100%
2016 53 0.000014447 53 100%
2017 71 0.000019854 71 100%
2018 64 0.000018203 64 100%
2019 54 0.000015558 54 100%
2020 42 0.000012573 42 100%
2021 52 0.000015349 52 100%
2022 42 0.000012415 42 100%
2023 36 0.000010872 36 100%
2024 39 0.000011717 39 100%

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