| [ 2 syll. ber-ni-ce, be-rn-ice ] The girl name Bernice is pronounced as BerNIYS KEY. Bernice is used mostly in English and it is of Old Greek origin. Bernice is a short form of the English, German, and Italian name Berenice. Bernice is an uncommon baby girl name. At the modest height of its usage in 1919, 0.494% of baby girls were named Bernice. It was #42 in rank then. The baby name has seen a steep loss in popularity since then, and is currently used on an infrequent scale. Within all girl names in its family, Bernice was nevertheless the most widely used in 2007. The name Bernice has been primarily given to girls, though it has also been used as a boy name in the last century. In 1942, 38 times more girls than boys were given the name Bernice. Baby names that sound like Bernice include the Scottish Bearnas, the English Bernise, the Galician and Portuguese Branca, the Welsh Brangwy, the English Brani, the Czech and Slavic Branka, the English Bernessa, the Spanish Bernicia, the English, German, and Italian Berenice, the English Berenis, the French Bérénice, and the German Berenike. KEY: Pronunciation for Bernice: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)"
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