How rare is the name Eunice?

31,650 people in the United States have the first name Eunice, about 1 in 9,543. It ranks #1,216 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EUNICE

#1,216

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
31,650
About
1 in 9,543
This common or more
72.7%
Who bears it

Of the 31,650 people named Eunice, 35.9% reported their origin as White, 27% as Black and 21.2% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Eunice peaked in 1920, when 2,278 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1920
Births that year
2,278
In 2025*
77 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 81,514 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Eunice by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #162. The largest share of babies named Eunice, 46.4%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2851,216
1890s#1923,277
1900s#1625,454
1910s#19215,710
1920s#22820,485
1930s#30711,823
1940s#4867,201
1950s#7574,585
1960s#1,0642,662
1970s#1,4451,693
1980s#1,5891,693
1990s#1,7031,999
2000s#2,2761,718
2010s#2,7751,428
2020s#3,676570
Before 19016.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2746.4%
Silent Generation 1928–4524.3%
Baby boom 1946–6410.7%
Generation X 1965–803.6%
Millennials 1981–963.6%
Generation Z 1997–123.4%
2013 and later1.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Eunice is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Eunice has been most common in North Dakota (3.4×), Alabama (2.7×), and Mississippi (2.5×), and least common in New Mexico (0.2×).

66,464 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Eunice

#1,214 Ciara · 31,895#1,215 Reid · 31,675#1,217 Kameron · 31,632#1,218 Helena · 31,617

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Eunice, most common first.

#40,051 Eunise · 187

Also a last name

As a last name, Eunice ranks #41,142 of 156,621, with 571 people. See Eunice as a last name

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