Bernadine
Bernadine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 264th, in 1931.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1924563 births
- Best rank
- #264in 1931
- Since 1882
- 21,927people given the name
The story in the numbers
21,927 girls have been named Bernadine in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 563 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 563 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Bernadine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 70 | |
| 1890s | 181 | |
| 1900s | 626 | |
| 1910s | 2,932 | |
| 1920s | 5,227 | |
| 1930s | 4,256 | |
| 1940s | 3,184 | |
| 1950s | 2,776 | |
| 1960s | 1,794 | |
| 1970s | 477 | |
| 1980s | 170 | |
| 1990s | 112 | |
| 2000s | 68 | |
| 2010s | 37 | |
| 2020s | 17 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Bernadine was the 277th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Bernadine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Wilmapeak 1925
- Pearlinepeak 1927
- Geneviapeak 1924
- Veldapeak 1920
- Juanitapeak 1924
- Romainepeak 1928
- Lorinepeak 1922
- Virginiapeak 1922
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.