Berna
Berna was last recorded in 1991, when 5 babies were given it; 1,466 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Berna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Berna mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Berna is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Berna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,383, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1929, the peak
Berna peaked in 1929, when 48 girls were given it, #1,053 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #13,383 | 2.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,547 | 3.0 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,963 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,616 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,436 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,083 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,689 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,235 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,652 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,570 | 7.7 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 12 | #3,756 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,888 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,640 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,300 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,199 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,995 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,295 | 12.4 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,026 | 14.9 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,660 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,627 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,639 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,243 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,076 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,822 | 16.2 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,885 | 15.0 |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,654 | 18.7 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,701 | 18.1 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,672 | 18.3 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,723 | 17.5 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,727 | 17.2 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,451 | 23.7 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,488 | 22.6 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,594 | 20.1 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,479 | 23.0 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,473 | 23.2 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,524 | 22.7 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,687 | 19.1 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,385 | 26.3 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,454 | 24.4 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,383 | 26.9 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,383 | 26.7 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,413 | 25.9 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,445 | 25.8 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,386 | 27.2 |
| 1931 | 38 | #1,164 | 35.7 |
| 1930 | 47 | #1,075 | 41.7 |
| 1929 | 48 | #1,053 | 43.0 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,367 | 27.7 |
| 1927 | 44 | #1,162 | 36.9 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,625 | 21.9 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,539 | 23.8 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,877 | 17.6 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,848 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,839 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,305 | 29.2 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,587 | 22.5 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,605 | 22.1 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,538 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,474 | 24.0 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,488 | 23.9 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,267 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,825 | 18.4 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,177 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,177 | 14.3 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,886 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,521 | 25.1 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,621 | 21.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Berna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Berna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Berna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Berna, and how old are they?
An estimated 575 Americans named Berna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 66 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,446 people named Berna (1,324 women and girls, 122 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 727 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Berna rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,952 babies since 1880, Berna is the fourth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 121 babies recorded by SSA was a Berna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Berna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Berna and names like it
- Compare Berna and BrennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBerna peaked in 1929.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Berna since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Berna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Berna.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Berna alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.