Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Bunice

#32,515 most common girls' name of all time · #52,443 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1912–1940

Rank among girls
#32,515
Rank overall
#52,443 of 105,966
First appeared
1912
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
48
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1920 #3,043
Best rank
#3,043 1920
Girls Boys peak 11/yr
19201940

Bunice first appears in 1912. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1940 5 — 5 #4,611
1932 5 — 5 #4,678
1924 8 — 8 #3,854
1923 8 — 8 #3,808
1920 11 — 11 #3,043
1917 6 — 6 #4,314
1912 5 — 5 #3,311