Bernedette
Bernedette was last recorded in 1981, when 6 babies were given it; 173 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bernedette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bernedette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,233, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1969, the peak
Bernedette peaked in 1969, when 9 girls were given it, #5,087 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #9,233 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,124 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,907 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,425 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,311 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,006 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,460 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,440 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,087 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,313 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 7 | #5,498 | 4.2 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,866 | 4.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,659 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,923 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,213 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,323 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,937 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,151 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,265 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,091 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,959 | 3.2 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,709 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,384 | 3.9 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,063 | 4.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,898 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,895 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,672 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bernedette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bernedette 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 Bernedette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bernedette, and how old are they?
An estimated 135 Americans named Bernedette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 54 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 213 people named Bernedette (213 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 142 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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, Bernedette is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 241 babies recorded by SSA was a Bernedette (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 Bernedette and names like it
- Compare Bernedette and BernadetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBernedette peaked in 1969.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Bernedette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Bernedette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.