Bernice

Greek

"she who brings victory"

Bernice Origin and Meaning

The name Bernice is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "she who brings victory".

Rarely heard today-- it fell off the list around 1980--Bernice is a biblical name of Greek origin. In the Bible, she is a sister of King Agrippa.

Bernice was a Top 100 name in the US for more than three decades--from 1900 to 1936--hitting a high of Number 39 in 1921. Last year in the US, fewer than 50 baby girls were named Bernice.

The original spelling of the name was Berenice, the name of the wife of Ptolemy I of Egypt, and it's also the name of a fourth century saint. Berenice Abbott was an important twentieth century photographer, and Bernice was the birth name of Bea Arthur. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best remembered short stories is "Bernice Bobs her Hair."

Bernice has a plethora of nicknames--you can take your pick of Berry, Benny, Bernie, Binnie and Bunny.

Bernice Rank in US Top 1000

# 935 in the US

Bernice Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1170 on Nameberry

Bernice Popularity

• 1170 Nameberry 2024

20 Names Similar to Bernice

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• Berenice
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• Donna
• Belinda
• Benilde
• Mildred
• Howard
• Babette
• Bernadette
• Deirdre
• Bernelle
• Barb
• Breda
• Ethel
• Bathsheba
• Bettina
• Becca
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Famous People Named Bernice

• Bernice Ackerman first woman weathercaster in the US
• Bernice Bing (1936 1998), Chinese,American abstract expressionist artist who was also an activist in the San Francisco lesbian and gay community of her era
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Hawaiian princess
• Bernice Burgos video vixen
• Bernice Claire American actress
• Bernice Fisher American civil rights activist
• Bernice "Fitz" Fitz Gibbon, American ad writer
• Bernice Frankel birth name of actress Bea Arthur
• Bernice Thurman Hunter Canadian children's author
• Bernice Jan Liu Canadian,Hong Kong actress; Miss Chinese International 2001
• Bernice Albertine King daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Bernice Morgan Canadian novelist
• Bernice L. Neugarten American psychologist
• Bernice Rubens Welsh novelist
• Bernice Zamora American Chicana poet
• Agnes Bernice Martin abstract painter

Bernice in Pop Culture

• Bernice Surprise "Benny" Summerfield Doctor Who book character
• Bernice Kimmelman character in movie "Domestic Import"
• Bernice Halper Luann's BFF in comic strip "Luann" by Greg Evans
• Bernice a successful writer of cheap tales, the wife of newspaperman John Stockton in "Dark Laughter" (1925) by Sherwood Anderson
• Bernice Pruitt character in the 1998 film 'Hope Floats'
• "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" (1920) short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Bernice "Bernie" Clasky character in the film, "Spanglish"