Meaning not yet researched.
Bernadette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 241 in 2025. Its best rank was #188 in 1946.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #188 in 1946; #1,034 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bernadette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,034 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1946, at #188.
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Bernadette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 241 girls in 2025. Peak: #188 in 1946 · most girls in one year: 1,494 (1958).
In 2025, 241 US girls were named Bernadette, making it the 1,034th most common girls’ name of the year, up 210 places from #1,244 in 2024. That is 54 more than the 187 girls named Bernadette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #188, reached in 1946. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,494, in 1958. For comparison, it was #1,479 in 2015 and #233 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bernadette in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 55,033 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 10,754 babies named Bernadette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,802 US girls were named Bernadette; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 241. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,669 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bernadette ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #332 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Bernadetta, Bernadett and Bernedette are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bernadetta (199), Bernadett (181), Bernedette (173), Bernnadette (17), Bernardita (13), Bernadet (9).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bernadette in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 10 | #332 | — |
| Oregon | 10 | #361 | — |
| Minnesota | 12 | #428 | #619 |
| Illinois | 18 | #546 | #1,076 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #634 | #761 |
| Michigan | 12 | #645 | #1,132 |
| Missouri | 8 | #650 | #690 |
| Indiana | 8 | #734 | #705 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #776 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #813 | #909 |
| Arizona | 7 | #834 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #859 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #931 | — |
| New York | 14 | #1,037 | #1,506 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,060 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,074 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,096 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,259 | — |
| California | 17 | #1,370 | #1,445 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,485 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,636 | #1,633 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,216 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 241 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 2024 | 187 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 2023 | 189 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 2022 | 182 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 2021 | 208 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 2020 | 150 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 2019 | 139 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 2018 | 181 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 2017 | 177 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 2016 | 148 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 2015 | 155 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 2014 | 134 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 2012 | 88 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,388 | — | — |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,444 | — | — |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 2006 | 95 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 2005 | 91 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 2001 | 125 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1999 | 151 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1998 | 174 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1997 | 158 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1996 | 170 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1995 | 174 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1994 | 185 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1993 | 215 | #895 | — | — |
| 1992 | 235 | #846 | — | — |
| 1991 | 237 | #845 | — | — |
| 1990 | 281 | #739 | — | — |
| 1989 | 235 | #810 | — | — |
| 1988 | 270 | #706 | — | — |
| 1987 | 288 | #653 | — | — |
| 1986 | 274 | #668 | — | — |
| 1985 | 268 | #673 | — | — |
| 1984 | 321 | #572 | — | — |
| 1983 | 365 | #520 | 5 | #6,341 |
| 1982 | 436 | #478 | — | — |
| 1981 | 380 | #517 | — | — |
| 1980 | 434 | #484 | — | — |
| 1979 | 461 | #444 | — | — |
| 1978 | 462 | #432 | — | — |
| 1977 | 552 | #384 | 7 | #4,635 |
| 1976 | 538 | #382 | — | — |
| 1975 | 545 | #381 | — | — |
| 1974 | 571 | #374 | — | — |
| 1973 | 606 | #351 | 6 | #4,560 |
| 1972 | 637 | #349 | — | — |
| 1971 | 740 | #342 | 7 | #4,002 |
| 1970 | 775 | #340 | — | — |
| 1969 | 836 | #311 | 6 | #3,987 |
| 1968 | 922 | #287 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,217 | #237 | 8 | #3,012 |
| 1966 | 1,111 | #255 | 5 | #3,996 |
| 1965 | 911 | #292 | — | — |
| 1964 | 934 | #304 | 6 | #3,637 |
| 1963 | 1,020 | #285 | 5 | #4,088 |
| 1962 | 1,136 | #264 | 5 | #4,092 |
| 1961 | 1,208 | #256 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,424 | #226 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,392 | #227 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,494 | #213 | — | — |
| 1957 | 989 | #281 | — | — |
| 1956 | 927 | #292 | — | — |
| 1955 | 960 | #278 | — | — |
| 1954 | 999 | #263 | — | — |
| 1953 | 912 | #273 | — | — |
| 1952 | 995 | #249 | — | — |
| 1951 | 990 | #245 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,043 | #233 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,141 | #220 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,185 | #211 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,253 | #211 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,321 | #188 | — | — |
| 1945 | 1,016 | #196 | — | — |
| 1944 | 1,035 | #195 | — | — |
| 1943 | 655 | #272 | — | — |
| 1942 | 373 | #364 | — | — |
| 1941 | 329 | #373 | — | — |
| 1940 | 323 | #364 | — | — |
| 1939 | 353 | #338 | — | — |
| 1938 | 367 | #331 | — | — |
| 1937 | 336 | #351 | — | — |
| 1936 | 382 | #309 | — | — |
| 1935 | 395 | #315 | — | — |
| 1934 | 619 | #252 | — | — |
| 1933 | 394 | #312 | — | — |
| 1932 | 315 | #360 | — | — |
| 1931 | 288 | #382 | — | — |
| 1930 | 323 | #379 | — | — |
| 1929 | 328 | #371 | — | — |
| 1928 | 371 | #351 | — | — |
| 1927 | 372 | #348 | — | — |
| 1926 | 368 | #350 | — | — |
| 1925 | 363 | #359 | — | — |
| 1924 | 347 | #368 | — | — |
| 1923 | 359 | #349 | — | — |
| 1922 | 339 | #356 | — | — |
| 1921 | 356 | #346 | — | — |
| 1920 | 330 | #360 | — | — |
| 1919 | 303 | #372 | — | — |
| 1918 | 283 | #389 | — | — |
| 1917 | 269 | #384 | — | — |
| 1916 | 253 | #393 | — | — |
| 1915 | 256 | #378 | — | — |
| 1914 | 201 | #377 | — | — |
| 1913 | 183 | #359 | — | — |
| 1912 | 142 | #387 | — | — |
| 1911 | 92 | #424 | — | — |
| 1910 | 96 | #402 | — | — |
| 1909 | 93 | #385 | — | — |
| 1908 | 95 | #370 | — | — |
| 1907 | 62 | #455 | — | — |
| 1906 | 55 | #459 | — | — |
| 1905 | 46 | #498 | — | — |
| 1904 | 46 | #486 | — | — |
| 1903 | 56 | #425 | — | — |
| 1902 | 53 | #427 | — | — |
| 1901 | 45 | #441 | — | — |
| 1900 | 47 | #495 | — | — |
| 1899 | 51 | #408 | — | — |
| 1898 | 48 | #442 | — | — |
| 1897 | 41 | #458 | — | — |
| 1896 | 49 | #409 | — | — |
| 1895 | 40 | #456 | — | — |
| 1894 | 32 | #506 | — | — |
| 1893 | 26 | #548 | — | — |
| 1892 | 22 | #592 | — | — |
| 1891 | 19 | #610 | — | — |
| 1890 | 20 | #581 | — | — |
| 1889 | 23 | #534 | — | — |
| 1888 | 16 | #642 | — | — |
| 1887 | 12 | #664 | — | — |
| 1886 | 10 | #736 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #852 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #939 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #821 | — | — |
| 1881 | 5 | #842 | — | — |
| 1880 | 8 | #634 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).