Berenise
Feminine · “Bringer of victory”
Berenise is Berenice written with the s that Spanish speakers say in it, and it keeps company with two very different literary heroines: a queen in a French tragedy where nobody dies, and a cousin in an early Edgar Allan Poe story nobody forgets.
How old is the name Berenise?
Berenise first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Berenise alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 600 people named Berenise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Berenise most popular?
Berenise peaked in 1993, reaching #2676 nationally. See the whole 1993 chart.
Where it comes from
From Pherenike to Berenise
The story of Berenise
Berenice was a royal name in the Hellenistic world, and the Berenice best known to later literature is the Jewish princess loved by the Roman emperor Titus, who sent her away when Rome would not accept her. In 1670 Jean Racine made that parting into Bérénice, a tragedy in which nobody dies; his preface argued that a tragedy needs grandeur and sorrow, not blood. Edgar Allan Poe used the name very differently in 1835, for a story whose narrator becomes obsessed with his cousin Berenice's teeth; readers complained to the magazine, and Poe trimmed it for a later printing. In Spanish the name is Berenice, said with an s, and Berenise writes it the way it sounds.
Meaning
Bringer of victory
Berenice is the Macedonian form of the Greek Pherenike, from pherein, 'to bring', and nike, 'victory'.
How the name formed
- Pherenike
- Berenike
- Berenice
- Berenise
Related forms: Berenice · Berenike · Bérénice · Bernice
Pronouncing Berenise
beh-reh-NEE-seh
In Spanish, four syllables ending in -seh. English speakers often say BAIR-uh-neese; the spelling suits the Spanish saying best.
Nicknames for Berenise
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 199345 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2676reached in 1993
- Change vs 2012
- −37.5%5 in 2015, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Berenise in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Berenice in Spanish — spelling variant
- Berenike in Greek — same name
- Bérénice in French — same name
- Bernice in English — related form
Berenises among us
people named Berenise are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Berenise sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- A documented Greek meaning, 'bringer of victory'.
- Belongs to a royal and literary name with more than two thousand years of use.
- Written the way it is said in Spanish, so Spanish-speaking family will read it correctly.
- English speakers will expect Berenice or Bernice and may say it three different ways.
- Poe's story is a real association; few people know it, but a well-read teacher might.
- Outside Spanish-speaking families it will need both spelling and pronouncing.
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- How many Berenises are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Berenise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Berenise is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Berenise will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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