Berenice

My middle name is Berenice, I personally love it, most of my family calls me this. The only annoying thing is people are always asking how it is spelled or pronounced. I can tell that people are close to me if they correctly call me by my middle name.

I love Berenice. It's very classic and tough.

Berenice sounds terribly dated to me and it's not too attractive either. I prefer Veronica.

The pronunciations are KILLING ME!

I gave this name to my daughter in 2011. In our country this is very rare name, I must spell it every time. But we love 'Berenike' so much that is not a problem for us.

I like Berenice as well as the diminutive form Verena, as a full name. I would use it, if it had a more common middle name like Rose or Elisabeth afterwards, considering Berenice is not so common.

I associate it with the Edgar Allen Poe story more than anything else, but since I'm a Poe fan, this isn't a bad thing. I prefer to pronounce it BER-eh-nees.

It looks like "berry nice". It's not berry nice.