Fewer than five US girls were named Bernetta in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #865, reached in 1914. The most girls given the name in a single year was 60, in 1921. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,325 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bernetta in 95 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 5 babies. In all, 2,797 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 473 babies named Bernetta.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Bernetta.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bernita (4,630 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Serbian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.