Meaning not yet researched.
Bernadine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #264 in 1931.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #264 in 1931; #13,465 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bernadine in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,465 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1931, at #264.
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Bernadine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #264 in 1931 · most girls in one year: 563 (1924).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Bernadine, making it the 13,465th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,203 places from #15,668 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 5 girls named Bernadine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #264, reached in 1931. The most girls given the name in a single year was 563, in 1924. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #479 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bernadine in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 6 babies. In all, 21,933 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 5,227 babies named Bernadine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 34 US girls were named Bernadine; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 7. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Bernadene and Bernadyne are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bernadene (482), Bernadyne (16).
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 Bernadine in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,465 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,668 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,366 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,638 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,068 | — | — |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,650 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,125 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,265 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,127 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,263 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,619 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,702 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,806 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,054 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,769 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,128 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,847 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,225 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,262 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,304 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,658 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,532 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,096 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,105 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,157 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,126 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,577 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,426 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,505 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,194 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,345 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,075 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,208 | — | — |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,296 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,351 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,494 | — | — |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,752 | — | — |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,671 | — | — |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 1971 | 72 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1969 | 103 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1968 | 114 | #974 | — | — |
| 1967 | 127 | #908 | — | — |
| 1966 | 171 | #753 | — | — |
| 1965 | 173 | #757 | — | — |
| 1964 | 191 | #753 | — | — |
| 1963 | 193 | #739 | — | — |
| 1962 | 233 | #667 | — | — |
| 1961 | 229 | #688 | — | — |
| 1960 | 260 | #624 | — | — |
| 1959 | 328 | #535 | — | — |
| 1958 | 408 | #471 | — | — |
| 1957 | 421 | #461 | — | — |
| 1956 | 161 | #772 | — | — |
| 1955 | 213 | #636 | — | — |
| 1954 | 195 | #656 | — | — |
| 1953 | 235 | #575 | — | — |
| 1952 | 264 | #520 | — | — |
| 1951 | 264 | #510 | — | — |
| 1950 | 287 | #479 | — | — |
| 1949 | 304 | #460 | — | — |
| 1948 | 283 | #477 | — | — |
| 1947 | 350 | #436 | — | — |
| 1946 | 320 | #433 | — | — |
| 1945 | 282 | #423 | — | — |
| 1944 | 359 | #371 | — | — |
| 1943 | 321 | #408 | — | — |
| 1942 | 308 | #410 | — | — |
| 1941 | 333 | #369 | — | — |
| 1940 | 324 | #363 | — | — |
| 1939 | 360 | #332 | — | — |
| 1938 | 375 | #325 | — | — |
| 1937 | 383 | #316 | — | — |
| 1936 | 352 | #330 | — | — |
| 1935 | 406 | #303 | — | — |
| 1934 | 429 | #301 | — | — |
| 1933 | 436 | #289 | — | — |
| 1932 | 438 | #302 | — | — |
| 1931 | 544 | #264 | — | — |
| 1930 | 533 | #280 | — | — |
| 1929 | 481 | #301 | — | — |
| 1928 | 505 | #296 | — | — |
| 1927 | 519 | #294 | — | — |
| 1926 | 546 | #283 | — | — |
| 1925 | 541 | #289 | — | — |
| 1924 | 563 | #277 | — | — |
| 1923 | 516 | #286 | — | — |
| 1922 | 527 | #285 | — | — |
| 1921 | 560 | #281 | — | — |
| 1920 | 469 | #301 | — | — |
| 1919 | 439 | #303 | — | — |
| 1918 | 486 | #287 | — | — |
| 1917 | 408 | #305 | — | — |
| 1916 | 407 | #298 | — | — |
| 1915 | 354 | #314 | — | — |
| 1914 | 252 | #330 | — | — |
| 1913 | 196 | #347 | — | — |
| 1912 | 172 | #347 | — | — |
| 1911 | 121 | #362 | — | — |
| 1910 | 97 | #400 | — | — |
| 1909 | 99 | #368 | — | — |
| 1908 | 77 | #410 | — | — |
| 1907 | 89 | #373 | — | — |
| 1906 | 79 | #385 | — | — |
| 1905 | 57 | #447 | — | — |
| 1904 | 66 | #399 | — | — |
| 1903 | 50 | #452 | — | — |
| 1902 | 39 | #509 | — | — |
| 1901 | 33 | #531 | — | — |
| 1900 | 37 | #569 | — | — |
| 1899 | 34 | #508 | — | — |
| 1898 | 28 | #611 | — | — |
| 1897 | 20 | #701 | — | — |
| 1896 | 17 | #792 | — | — |
| 1895 | 19 | #727 | — | — |
| 1894 | 16 | #752 | — | — |
| 1893 | 14 | #800 | — | — |
| 1892 | 10 | #965 | — | — |
| 1891 | 12 | #799 | — | — |
| 1890 | 11 | #833 | — | — |
| 1889 | 17 | #621 | — | — |
| 1888 | 10 | #843 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1886 | 12 | #661 | — | — |
| 1885 | 9 | #749 | — | — |
| 1884 | 10 | #689 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #822 | — | — |
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).