Bernadette
Bernadette is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 186 births. Its best rank was 188th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1860.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19581,494 births
- Best rank
- #188in 1946
- Since 1880
- 54,728people given the name
The story in the numbers
54,728 girls have been named Bernadette in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 1,494 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1960s alone account for 20%. It has spent 113 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Bernadette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 93 | |
| 1890s | 348 | |
| 1900s | 598 | |
| 1910s | 2,078 | |
| 1920s | 3,533 | |
| 1930s | 3,772 | |
| 1940s | 8,631 | |
| 1950s | 10,701 | |
| 1960s | 10,718 | |
| 1970s | 5,887 | |
| 1980s | 3,271 | |
| 1990s | 1,979 | |
| 2000s | 946 | |
| 2010s | 1,259 | |
| 2020s | 914 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Bernadette was the 213th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Bernadette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aletapeak 1947
- Anitapeak 1957
- Franciepeak 1950
- Cherrypeak 1947
- Rosalindpeak 1965
- Rositapeak 1966
- Vernitapeak 1961
- Loreenpeak 1964
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.