Berce
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: hogweed, any plant of the genus Heracleum
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɝs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Berce is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 138K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.9M
- SISlovenia1 in 6.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈790 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
hogweed, any plant of the genus Heracleum
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Berce is read(measured from records)
Berce is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English50%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Berce in English.
- Spanish17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Berce in Spanish.
- French11%
hogweed, any plant of the genus Heracleum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.8%
inflection of berçar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Berce counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Berce | 16 |
| SI Slovenia | #445 | 343 | 1 in 6.1K | 343 | Berce | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 229 | 1 in 925K | 229 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 122 | Berce | 106 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Berce | 7 |
| HR Croatia | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 308K | 11 | Berce | 12 |
| IM Isle of Man | #496 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Berce | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Berce is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, cradle, crib
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, mired
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean-Étienne Berceb. 1803FRFrench entomologist (1803-1879)
- Gene Berceb. 1926USAmerican basketball player (1926-2018)
- Adrian Berceb. 1958AUAustralian field hockey player
- Vojko BerceSISlovenian researcher
- Ingrid BerceSIresearcher
- Matjaž BerceSIresearcher
- Jure BerceSIresearcher
- Janez BerceSIresearcher
- Jaro BerceSIresearcher
- Peter BerceSIresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 343 | #1,077 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 229 | #32,874 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 122 | #128,797 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 11 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Berce mean, and where does it come from?
- hogweed, any plant of the genus Heracleum Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Berce?
- A machine transcription gives /bɝs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Berce have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 790 people named Berce in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berce.
- Where is Berce most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Berce is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 6.1 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Berce?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 343 people named Berce, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Berce compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Berce is the 445th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/berceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Berce” — the 445th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.