Bernadetta
Bernadetta was last recorded in 1975, when 7 babies were given it; 199 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bernadetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bernadetta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bernadetta is “a female given name from French.”
Variant of Bernadette.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bernadetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,238, in 1975; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1918, the peak
Bernadetta peaked in 1918, when 11 girls were given it, #2,842 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | #7,238 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,537 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,626 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,085 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,513 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,496 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,217 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,864 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,333 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,910 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7 | #5,343 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,321 | 2.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,302 | 2.9 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,470 | 4.1 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,901 | 5.6 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,905 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,927 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,424 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,394 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,960 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,064 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,494 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,842 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,142 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,293 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,167 | 8.1 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,178 | 14.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bernadetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bernadetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bernadetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bernadetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 86 Americans named Bernadetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 268 people named Bernadetta (267 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 94 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 55,405 babies since 1880, Bernadetta is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 241 babies recorded by SSA was a Bernadetta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernadette | 55,033 | 241 | 1958 |
| Bernadetta | 199 | under 5 | 1918 |
| Bernedette | 173 | under 5 | 1969 |
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.
More about Bernadetta and names like it
- Compare Bernadetta and BernadetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBernadetta peaked in 1918.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Bernadetta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Bernadetta.
- Names starting with BMost given first.