Entry № 1354 · Greek origin

Berenike Berenike — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ beh-reh-NEE-keh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Bringer of victory (Berenice II Ptolemaic queen + Coma Berenices)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "bringer of victory (berenice ii ptolemaic queen + coma berenices)".

Berenike is one of the Greek feminine names — central to traditional Macedonian + Ptolemaic Egyptian heritage. Greek feminine name reflecting Hellenistic royal heritage.

Bringer of victory (Greek).

The name in its native script.

Βερενίκη
Transliteration
Berenikē
Pronunciation
/ bɛ.rɛˈniː.kɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

What Berenike is built from.

Berenike is a compound name. Its parts are níkē — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

níkē
Greek
“victory”

Where Berenike stands.

Berenike does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Berenikes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Berenice II of Egypt
Ptolemaic queen of Egypt + wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes + Lock of Berenice + Coma Berenices constellation + Callimachus's Aetia + Catullus 66.
c. 267 – 221 BCE

Names connected to Berenike.

The number behind Berenike.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Berenike reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.